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Finest 1798 NC-1 Rarity
210
1798 NC-1 R7 Style I Hair, Small 8 PCGS Genuine, AU Details, Tooled.
Glossy
medium chocolate brown with darker steel brown toning on the highpoints and
frosty lighter brown toning in protected areas, primarily on the reverse. The surfaces
are mostly smooth but there are traces of fine roughness, especially outside the
wreath from ICA clockwise to UNITED. The minor roughness is not distracting,
but the deep scratches in the field before the neck and chin are impossible to miss.
Although this cent is certainly not perfect, it is still the finest of only 7 known of
the variety. Graded EF40 net F12 and CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #28559.
Bland says EF40 net VF20 and CC#1 by a full 10 points.
Our grade is EF40 net
F15
. Any way you look at it, this is a very important cent for the advanced collector
of early large cents. This is the Noyes plate coin for the variety in his 1991 book on
the cents of 1793-1814. The attribution and Reynolds provenance are noted on the
PCGS Secure label
(PCGS # 36059)
Estimated Value............................................................................................ $15,000-UP
Ex Worthy Coin Co., bid board sale 3/1990-Ronnie Adam 4/1997.