Fred Borcherdts ANA Sale

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

THE FLOYD STARR S-155

LOT 197 1798 S-155 R3 Style I Hair, Reverse of 1796 VF30 . Ten points sharper with extremely faint roughness under mostly glossy olive and dark steel brown toning. There is very little wear on this cent and the eye appeal is quite nice in spite of the slightly dull surfaces and dark toning. The only marks are a small prick over the N in ONE and a light nick left of that O. LDS, Breen state VI, with all the die cracks mentioned by Breen. Graded VF35 and tied for CC#10 in the Bland census. Noyes says VF35 net F15 and tied for CC#14, his photo #27467. A sharp, wholly acceptable example of the Reverse of 1796 type, and it comes with the important Starr Collection provenance.

Ex Floyd T. Starr, Stack’s 6/13/1984:28-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

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