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Breen & Noyes Plate Coin S-201
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1800 S-201 R4+. PCGS graded VF-30.
CAC APPROVED
. Glossy medium
chocolate and darker steel brown. Smooth and attractive, nearly choice show-
ing only a few trivial contact marks. The best identifying marks, and they are
invisible to the unaided eye, are a faint diagonal hairline in the field before the
chin and a dull pinprick near the leaf under U in UNITED. MDS, Breen state III,
with all the bulges, clashmarks, and die cracks mentioned by Breen. This cent
is plated in the Breen and 1991 Noyes references to illustrate the variety. A very
nice example of a variety that is unknown in high grade. Called VF20 and tied
for CC#1 honors with the ANS example in the Noyes census, his photo #27566.
Bland says VF20 and tied for CC#1 as well.
Our grade is VF25.
The attribution
and Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Secure label.
Pop 1; none finer
at PCGS for the variety. Only 2 examples graded at PCGS (PCGS # 36191)
Estimated Value ........................................................................................$2,000-UP
Ex R. Douglas McCreery, Bowers & Merena 6/11/1990:327 (lot ticket included).