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S-56 - S-58

LOT 67

1794 S-56 R3 VF25+ The “Office Boy Reverse” variety. Sharpness VF35 or slightly better but there are small contact marks on otherwise smooth, attractive surfaces. The notable marks are a couple dull rim nicks under the bust tip, tiny rim bruises at the E in UNITED and R in AMERICA, and a scrape on the E in CENT. Glossy chocolate and lighter steel brown with mint frost covering the fields and protected areas on the reverse. EDS, Breen state I. The repunching under the left foot of the A in STATES is sharp. The strike is uneven as often seen in the early die state, weak at the top of the obverse and the opposing area at the bottom of the reverse and sharp elsewhere. The reverse is rotated 30 degrees clockwise relative to the normal head-to-foot die orientation. Graded VF30 net VF25 and tied for CC#18 in the Noyes census, his photo #36542. $6,500

Ex the Newport Beach auction 10/1988:20 (while housed in a PCGS holder graded XF40)-Stanley Chen-Chris McCawley FPL #64

LOT 68

1794 S-57 R1 VG10 Sharpness EF45 or better but dark and covered with fine to moderate roughness mixed with fine planchet striations on the obverse. Traces of shallow verdigris can be fond in some of the protected areas and there is an old but obvious scratch slanting through the cap. Slightly glossy dark olive brown, nearly black. A sharp, barely worn cent, but not a very attractive one. E-MDS, Breen state II early. The obverse die has been lapped but the “trenches” before the face have not formed. $1,250

Ex 1953 ANA Sale, Numismatic Gallery, 8/22/1953:68 (as F12)

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