Fred Borcherdts ANA Sale

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

THIRD FINEST 1802 NC-1

LOT 306 1802 NC-1 R5 PCGS graded VF30 . Glossy brown and light chocolate with medium steel brown toning on the highpoints. Smooth with trivial contact marks, but there is a spot of very fine verdigris at the left side of the L in LIBERTY. Sharply struck EDS, Breen state II, with a fine die crack confined to the portrait, clearest from the earlobe to the bust. Graded F15 and tied for CC#3 in the Bland census. Noyes says VF25 net F15 and tied for CC#3, his photo #25675. Our grade is F15+ . About five dozen are known but the majority of those are in grades of Good or less. 36335.30/52085731

Ex R. K. “Knox” Ivey, 1981 EAC Sale, lot 188-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

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