Fred Borcherdts ANA Sale

FRED BORCHERDT’S HALL OF FAME COLLECTION 1793-1814 CENTS

BEAUTIFUL 1793 SHELDON-6 “SPRUNG DIE”

LOT 7 1793 S-6 R3 Wreath Cent with Vine & Bars Edge, PCGS graded AU50 . Choice glossy light to medium brown with slightly darker steel brown on the highpoints of the devices. Smooth with great eye appeal and trivial marks including a very light and barely visible rim bruise at K-8 on the obverse and a small rim tick off the end of the bust. The planchet is choice except for a few tiny fissures (as struck), the only notable ones located in the field before the eye and just right of the date. Neither fissure catches your eye. The only mark on the reverse is a tiny fissure on the edge over the second T in STATES. Nicely struck E-MDS, Breen state II, with a subtle horizontal wave in the field behind the portrait, Crosby’s “Sprung Die” variety. Noyes photo #29252. Our grade is VF30. A very nice mid-grade example of the variety. 35450.50/57538473

From the Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

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