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EARLY CENTS AUCTIONS

LOT 540 1851 N-6 R1 Repunched 1’s and 5 MS60. Lustrous medium steel brown with a couple puffs of bluish steel inside the wreath. Ten percent of the reverse shows mellowed mint red. The only marks are a couple tiny ticks over star 2. E-MDS, die state b. The repunching at the date is dull but still visible as are some of the earlier die lines on both sides. 

From the Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

 RARE VERY EARLY STATE N-7

LOT 541 1851 N-7 R1 AU58. Lustrous light golden tan. Very close to mint state; just the lightest touch of friction on the highest points of the devices. A small nick right of the upper lip is a good identifying mark. This is a common die variety but an extremely rare die state. VEDS, the earliest state seen, with prooflike fields on both sides. The right field on the obverse is covered with tiny impressed lint marks as is the field inside the wreath; the rest of the fields on both sides are hard and reflective. It must have been one of the very first cents struck from this die pair. It is not only the finest seen of the die state, it is the only example of the very early die state recorded in the Grellman census. 

From the Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

LOT 542 1851 N-7 R1 MS63. Lustrous olive brown and steel with 20% of the mint red showing on both sides. Satiny and very attractive with trivial defects. A speck of carbon tucked under the brow lock and a tiny struck-through line on the jawline over the throat are the only notable flaws, and they are not visible to the unaided eye. MDS, die state a. The die lines at the inner curl are weak but visible and the fields are flowlined. Tied for CC#6 with many others in the Grellman census.

LOT 543 1851 N-8 R3- MS60. Frosty light olive and bluish steel brown with faded mint red in protected areas on both sides. Only trivial marks including a diagonal nick-like planchet void over star 12, a tiny struck through line over star 11, and a speck of dark toning tucked under the right top of the T in UNITED. E-MDS, die state a. The die line over the M in AMERICA is dull but clearly visible. Tied for CC#8 in the Grellman census.

From the Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

From the Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

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