2024 EAC Sale

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SHARP S-1 AMERI.

LOT 174 1793 S-1 R4 Chain AMERI. PCGS graded VF30. Frosty medium brown and light chocolate. Sharp and beautiful with superb surfaces EXCEPT for about a dozen mint-made parallel planchet fissures, mostly on the reverse. Traces of reddish planchet slag show in the recesses of a few of the most-obvious fissures on the reverse. Otherwise the surfaces are superb with light wear on the devices and a few contact marks. The notable marks are a couple thin nicks in the field behind the portrait, another right of the Y, a tiny rim nick at K-9 on the obverse, and a small dig under the O in ONE. MDS, Breen state III, with subtle bulges at the 1 in the date and the opposing U in UNITED and clashmarks below the truncation but no crack at TATE. Our grade is EF40 sharpness net VF30. The attribution is noted on the PCGS label. 35432.30/48058479

Ex John D. Wright, Auction ‘87 (Superior), 7/31/1987:163 (as EF40) (includes the special Auction ‘87 Capital Plastic holder and lot ticket)

LOT 175 1793 S-3 Chain AMERICA PCGS Good Detail, Environmental Damage. Sharpness VG7 but covered with fine to moderate roughness. No verdigris but there are some rim dents, the largest one at LI. Dark chocolate and steel; matte in the fields but glossy on the highpoints. The date is easily readable as are most of the legends. Our grade is net AG3. Previously removed from a PCGS holder where assessed as “VG Detail, Damage” and an ANACS slab as “F12 Details, Rim Bumps, Corroded.” Both labels are included. 1341.97/48226510



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