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1803 S-256 R3. PCGS graded AU-58+.
CAC AP-
PROVED
. Frosty medium steel brown with darker steel
brown toning on the highpoints and lighter steel brown
and reddish tan in protected areas. No spots or stains.
The only marks are some very faint ones around the left
base of the L in LIBERTY and a barely visible hairline
over the N in ONE. None of these marks is visible to the
unaided eye and this cent offers excellent eye appeal.
LDS, Breen state V, with a strong cud break over STA
that touches the entire top of that T. Graded AU55 net
EF45 and tied for CC#5 in the Noyes census, his photo
#23317. Bland says EF45 and tied for CC#5.
Our grade
is AU50.
One of the finest known with the cud break.
The attribution and Reynolds provenance are noted on
the PCGS Secure label.
Pop 1; 3 finer at PCGS for the
variety, 1 in MS62 and 2 in MS63 (PCGS # 36383)
Estimated Value ..............................................$3,000-UP
Ex Bowers & Ruddy 2/1976:1075-unknown-Superior
10/1977:175-C. Douglas Smith-Dr. Robert A. Schuman,
McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 9/5/2004:558.
290
1803 S-257 R2 Small Date, Large Fraction. PCGS graded
MS-62 Brown.
CAC APPROVED
.
F
rosty golden tan and light
steel brown with darker steel brown toning on the highpoints
of the devices. Mint luster covers the fields and protected areas
on both sides and this cent offers outstanding eye appeal. The
only marks, and they are microscopic, are a tiny planchet flake
(as struck) in the field close before the neck, another at the
dentils left of the lower end of the hair ribbon, and a collection
of extremely faint ticks on the shoulder with another group of
very fine ticks in the field over the upper end of the hair ribbon.
Sharply struck EDS, Breen state I, with die clashmarks on both
sides but no die cracks.
Our grade is AU58,
perhaps because
we use a 16x glass, but this cent offers solid mint state eye ap-
peal. The attribution and Reynolds provenance are noted on the
PCGS Secure label.
Pop 1; 1 finer in MS63+ at PCGS for the
variety (PCGS # 36395)
Estimated Value .......................................................... $4,000-UP
Ex Coleman Foster-William Yates 2/1998.