1841 1C Newcomb 4, RB MS(PCGS#403935)

August 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1119

等级

MS66RB

价格

77,112

详细说明

Gorgeous Gem Mint State 1841 N-4 Cent Ex Newcomb-Starr-Naftzger-Cardinal-ESM 1841 Braided Hair Cent. N-4. Rarity-1. MS-66 RB (PCGS). CAC. Type:Braided Hair. Design: Obv: A head of Liberty faces left with 13 stars around the border and the date 1841 below. She is wearing a coronet inscribed LIBERTY, her hair tied into a bun at the back of her head by a beaded cord. Rev: A circular wreath encloses the denomination ONE CENT with the legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA around the border. Weight Standard: 10.89 grams. Diameter: 27.5 mm. Die Variety: Newcomb-4. Obv: The point of the lowest hair curl is right of the upright of the 4 in the date, die lines are (faintly) discernible at the denticles below that digit. The 1841 N-4 represents the only use of this obverse die. Rev: A die line slants down to the right from the left base of the letter E in ONE with additional, faint lines in the field between the letters ON in the same word and the letters EN in CENT. The 1841 N-4 also represents the only use of this reverse die. All seven die marriages of this issue correspond to the only Guide Booklisting for the 1841 Braided Hair cent. Die State: Grellman d, Noyes D/D. Obv: The diagnostic (for the die marriage) crack from the rim above star 5, through stars 6, 7, and 8, then to the rim above star 9, is soft in appearance and there are cuds on the rim below the date. Rev: Denticulation soft, diagnostic die crack from below ribbon end upward across the top of the letters in UNITED and to the rim above the following S in STATES. The aforementioned die lines around the denomination are present, but not crisp, while additional die lines over the letters ERI in AMERICA are no longer visible. Edge: Plain. Mintage for the Issue: 1,597,367 coins. Estimated Surviving Population for the Die Variety: Rarity-1: More than 1,500 coins in all grades. Strike: The central obverse details are crisp and all but a few stars deliver full centrils. The reverse wreath details are as bold as ever seen for the type. Surfaces: Boldly lustrous rose-brown surfaces retain abundant warm mint orange color; the reverse is deeper in tone than the obverse. Frosty in texture with strong cartwheel activity. Some scattered flecks are present, most noticeable of these to the left of the date near star 1. Commentary: A find for advanced type collectors as well as variety enthusiasts, both the Noyes census and the Grellman census rank this coin as CC#1 for the 1841 Newcomb-6 dies. Noyes assigns an EAC grade of MS-65, Grellman calls it MS-65+. Exceptional Gem Uncirculated quality and worthy of the strongest bids. As with several large cents in the ESM cabinet, this coin was once part of the personal collection of Howard Rounds Newcomb. He was the first numismatist to study in detail Morgan dollars of the early series, identifying die varieties and publishing them in The Numismatist. He went on to examine other silver coins in detail and to make discoveries. However, today much of that is forgotten, and he is best remembered as the author of the standard work covering copper cents from 1816 to 1857. We (Stack's) published this, and it sold widely. However, it was quite a few years before a large number of collectors began using Newcomb's attribution system. Indeed, it was not until even more recent times that PCGS and NGC started adding Newcomb numbers to select large cent grading submissions. The reason for this is that among certain later issues, such as those from the 1850s, there are many varieties of a given date, and distinguishing them is difficult. That said, today the state of the art has changed, and with books featuring enlarged illustrations, the discipline is popular. Even so, as the vast majority of cents (certified and not) are unattributed, there are many opportunities for cherrypicking. Provenance: From the ESM Collection. Earlier ex Howard R. Newcomb; J.C. Morgenthau & Co., Inc.'s sale of Howard R. Newcomb Collection of United States Cents, Part II, May 1945, lot 722; our (Stack's) sale of the Floyd T. Starr Collection, June 1984, lot 409; Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz, May 1986; R.E. "Ted" Naftzger, Jr.; Ira & Larry Goldberg's sale of the R.E. "Ted" Naftzger, Jr. Collection, Part III, September 2009, lot 626; Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation; our sale of the Cardinal Collection, January 2013 Americana Sale, lot 13061. PCGS Population (all die marriages of the issue): 2; 0 finer in this category. There is a single MS-64 RD listed in that category at PCGS. CAC Population: 2; 0. PCGS# 403935. NGC ID: 2267. Click here for certification details from PCGS.