Fred Borcherdts ANA Sale

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

SECOND FINEST S-182

LOT 231 1798 S-182 R4 Small 8, Style II Hair EF40 . Glossy light olive speckled with darker olive brown. Frosty lighter brown and tan shows in protected areas on both sides. The only notable defects are a faint planchet lamination in the field near the dentils off the chin (as struck), and a light rim bruise at ED in UNITED. MDS, Breen state II, with a die clashmark at the throat. Graded EF45 and CC#2 in the Bland census. Not evaluated by Noyes. Comes with an important provenance.

Ex Ira S. Reed 2/24/1940-Judge Thomas L. Gaskill, New Netherlands Coin Co. (privately) 11/1956-Dorothy I. Paschal-Dr. William H. Sheldon-R. E. “Ted” Naftzger, Jr.-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection (includes the Reed sales envelope)

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