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1794 S-59 R3. PCGS graded MS-63 Brown.
CAC APPROVED
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Frosty steel brown with tan faded down from mint color in protected
areas. A choice, very attractive cent. The only marks, and they are quite
insignificant, are a very light diagonal nick high on the neck, a small
planchet chip in the dentils under the denominator, and an area of
slightly darker brown toning under TA in STATES. There is just the
slightest hint of rub on the highest points of the hair, but this cent of-
fers solid mint state eye appeal. M-LDS, Breen state IV, with a clear die
crack arcing from the dentils over the C in AMERICA passing through
the adjacent A, ribbon, and fraction to the dentils under the left ribbon
end. Graded MS60 net AU55 and CC#5 in the Noyes census, his photo
#21842. Bland says AU55 and CC#4.
Our grade is MS60.
The attribu-
tion and Naftzger-Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Secure
label.
Pop 1; 1 finer in 64 at PCGS for the variety (PCGS # 35639)
Estimated Value .....................................................................$40,000-UP
Ex Herbert A. Dietz, Stack’s 4/1962:271-unknown-Stack’s
10/1966:46-Gilbert Steinberg, 1976 ANA Sale (Stack’s),
8/24/1976:232-Del Bland 5/13/1986-Herman Halpern, Stack’s
3/16/1988:80-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 1990 EAC Sale, 5/1990:27 (lot tickets
from the 1976 ANA and Halpern sales included along with the Naf-
tzger collection envelope).