1853 1C Newcomb 17, BN MS(PCGS#406018)

1853 1C Newcomb 17, BN MS (PCGS#406018)

September 2021 Pre-Long Beach U.S. & World Coin Auction #123

详细说明: Lot 364 1853 N-17 R2 Repunched 1 NGC graded MS66 Brown.Highly lustrous light bluish steel and chocolate with peeps of faded mint red showing on both sides. Satiny mint frost covers this cent, even the highest points of the devices, and its eye appeal is outstanding. There is a thin vertical nick high on the neck, a scuff on the rim below the date, and a microscopic planchet lamination from the dentils below star 2 to the tip of the nose and coronet to the dentils above (as struck). None of these defects is visible to the unaided eye. E-MDS, die state a late. The die lines from the dentils below the 185 are dull but visible and the earlier lines under star 1 are gone. The dash left of the base of the 1 is clear. Our grade is MS63,tied for CC#3 in the Grellman census. The attribution and COL Ellsworth Collection provenance are noted on the NGC label. NGC population 1; 1 finer in 67.Estimated Value $700 - UP Ex Dr. Steven L. Freed 3/1991-R. S. Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:1193-Martin Paul (The Rarities Group)-Tom Osieczanez 6/25/2015-Colonel Steven K. Ellsworth Collection.