1857 1C N-2 Small Date, BN MS(PCGS#148732)

Spring 2022 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1367

等级

MS65BN

价格

15,283

详细说明

1857 Braided Hair Cent. N-2. Rarity-1. Small Date. MS-65 BN (PCGS). Rich chocolate surfaces combine with attractive outlines of faded red around the obverse devices. The reverse is similar with a bit more red in the fields. Though glossy on the high points, the contrasting fields are ever so slightly prooflike in the obverse fields, an attribute of the early die state, Grellman a, which also shows fine die lines that connect the letters UNIT to the denticles. A couple of tiny nicks are noted, but the surfaces are generally quite smooth as one would expect of the grade. The Small Date circulation strikes were produced by two different die pairs, which are combined in the PCGS population numbers. As such, it is clear that few specimens of this variety are graded this high or finer. This variety is moderately more difficult to find with original red, and a Gem brown coin like this one is ideal for most collections. Its quality likely merits it a spot within the Condition Census for this variety. Provenance: Ex Bruno Crossfield; Willard C. Blaisdell Collection; R.E. "Ted" Naftzger, Jr. Collection, by sale via Del Bland, September 1976; R.E. "Ted" Naftzger, Jr. estate, October 2007; Ira and Larry Goldberg's sale of the Ted Naftzger Collection, September 2009, lot 1300; our sale of the D. Brent Pogue Collection, Part V, April 2017, lot 5230. Collector tag and envelope with attribution notes included. PCGS Population (both die marriages of the Small Date variety): 8; 0 finer in this category. PCGS# 148732. NGC ID: 226P. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.