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S-117 - S-118

LOT 152 1796 S-117 R5+ Draped Bust VG7 Sharpness F15 but there are significant contact marks on both sides including fine vertical scratches on the portrait, two dull nicks or dents in the field left of the portrait, and a collection of dull nicks just left of the fraction. Most of the planchet is smooth but there is a patch of roughness left of the date. Glossy light chocolate brown and olive. E-MDS, Breen state II, with a fine die crack through the top of TY. The date is strong except for weakness on the 1 caused by the rough patch, and the legends are strong. Graded F15 net VG8 by Bland. Noyes says F15 net G5 and tied for CC#17, his photo #24153. $2,500

Ex New Netherlands Coin Co. (privately)-C. Douglas Smith (via Denis Loring) 1970-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 9/30/1986:158 (as VG8) (includes the Smith and Brown collection envelopes)

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