Fred 2 Book

EARLY CENTS AUCTIONS

 CONDITION CENSUS N-6

LOT 668 1854 N-6 R1 MS62+. Lustrous steel brown with 15% of the mint red remaining, mostly on the reverse. Satiny and very attractive. No spots or stains, just a few trivial contact marks including a trio of very tiny ticks on the cheek, a dull tick on the edge right of the date, and another on the rim at the M in AMERICA. Otherwise choice, very close to MS63. M-LDS, die state b late. The lump under the nose and the die lines from the dentils at star 2 are weak but still visible. CC#4 for the variety in the Grellman census. 

Ex the Philadelphia Collection, Ed Hipps 2012-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

 CONDITION CENSUS N-7

LOT 669 1854 N-7 R2+ Repunched 1 & 4 MS62. Frosty light olive and bluish steel brown with 15% of the mint color remaining, mostly on the reverse. The surfaces are lustrous and this cent has very nice eye appeal. The only notable marks are a tiny, slightly curved struck-through mark on the chin (caused by a tiny piece of lint or wire on the die) and small traces of an old fingerprint in the field close to the main curl. M-LDS, die state b. The repunching on the 1 and 4 is gone and a flowline extends from the right base of the 4 down to the right top of a dentil. The fields are flowlined. Tied for CC#5 in the Grellman census. Removed from an NGC holder graded MS64BN (NGC label #308010-010 included, and it shows the attribution and Jules Reiver Collection provenance). 

Ex Greg Gause 2/1967-Jules Reiver, Heritage Auctions 1/24/2006:20579-Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/30/2011:591-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

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