197 / 280
195
Finest 1800 S-211
231
1800 S-211 R3. PCGS graded MS-63 Brown.
CAC APPROVED
.
F
rosty steel brown and chocolate with lots of lighter steel brown and
tan in protected areas, especially on the reverse where the lighter brown
toning is dominant. There is a puff of darker steel brown toning at the
8 in the date plus a few more on the reverse, the most notable of these
off the dentil tips right of the D in UNITED. The only other “defects”
are a shallow low spot slanting from the bottom of the jaw into the field
below and a tiny low spot in the field off the lower end of the hair ribbon
(both as struck). E-MDS, Breen state III, with a bulge in the field before
the neck and clear die clashmarks on both sides. Both sides of this cent
are plated in
Early American Cents
and the 1991 Noyes reference, and
the reverse is plated in
Penny Whimsy.
Graded MS62 and CC#1 in the
Noyes census over the MS60 ANS example with the next best grading
EF40, his photo #20700. Bland says MS61, tied for CC#1 with the ANS
cent, the next best grading EF45 in his census. Any way you look at it,
this is clearly the finest example available to collectors by a very signifi-
cant margin. And it comes with an impressive provenance that has been
traced back over 100 years.
Our grade is MS62.
The attribution and
Naftzger-Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Secure label.
Pop
1; none finer at PCGS for the variety (PCGS # 36221)
Estimated Value....................................................................... $20,000-UP
Ex George M. Klein, W. Elliot Woodward #95, 5/1888:2020-unknown-
Clarence S. Bement, Henry Chapman 5/1916:310-Dr. Henry W. Beckwith,
S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1923:22-Elmer S. Sears-Howard R. Newcomb, J. C.
Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/7/1945:305-T. James Clarke 1949-Dr. William
H. Sheldon 4/19/1972-R. E. Naftzger Jr., 2/23/1992-Eric Streiner, 1994
EAC Sale, lot 598-Tony Terranova & Chris McCawley 5/1994 (includes
the Naftzger collection envelope and EAC Sale lot ticket).