2024 EAC Sale

INDIANAPOLIS EAC 2024  1834 N-6 EX NEWCOMB-STARR

LOT 451 1834 N-6 R3 Large 8, Stars, & Letters NGC graded UNC Details, Burnished. A mint state cent with very sharp details and excellent eye appeal, but a glass reveals uniform extremely fine granularity under frosty dark olive brown and steel toning. Otherwise satiny and virtually flawless. A tiny flake on the right top of the C in CENT can help identify this cent, but you need a good glass to see it. This cent was not “Burnished” as claimed on the NGC label; perhaps they meant “Environmental Damage.” MDS, Grellman state b, with a triangular lump at the dentils over star 9. The reverse is rotated 45 degrees clockwise relative to the normal head-to-foot die orientation. A double profile shows on the forehead, nose, lips, chin, ear, and RTY. Our grade is MS60 sharpness net AU50+. The attribution is noted on the NGC label. Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau & Co. 2/16/1945:655-Floyd T. Starr, Stack’s 12/4/1984:1710-Manuel Ahumada, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 9/5/2004:911-Crescent Bay Collection, Superior 2/11/2007:201-Douglas F. Bird (includes the Ahumada collection envelope, the Bird sales ticket, and the last 3 lot tickets)  CLIPPED PLANCHET

LOT 452 1835 N-1 R1 Large 8, Head of 1834 VF30. Frosty chocolate delicately woodgrained with some lighter brown. Lightly worn with only trivial contact marks scattered over both sides, none notable but a few too many for the slightly better sharpness grade. MDS, Grellman state a, before the radial die crack at star 11.5. A curved planchet clip affects the dentils at star 1.

Ex the Del Rio Collection

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