TNA HOF Collection Pt 1

EARLY CENTS AUCTIONS

LOT 1127

LOT 1128

LOT 1129

LOT 1127 1846 N-19 R4 MS60. Frosty tan and light brown with medium brown on the highpoints and traces of faded mint red in protected areas on the reverse. Sharply struck with just a few trivial marks including a small diagonal nick off the upper right point of star 4 and a speck of darker brown toning on the rim over IT in UNITED. EDS, die state a. The reverse is uncracked and all the fine early die lines are sharp. A nice cent, tied for CC#7 of the variety in the Grellman census. Removed from an NGC holder graded MS62BN (NGC label #3128208-001 included).  Ex Fred H. Borcherdt Collection LOT 1128 1846 N-19 R4 F12+. Glossy light to medium brown and chocolate. Smooth with only minor marks, just worn. A tiny tick on the lower left point of star 8 is a good identifying mark, but you need a glass to see it. Rare LDS, die state d, with a rim cud break at star 12. The cud break is clear. CC#7 of 10 known with the cud in the Grellman census. 

Ex Tom Hart 2007-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

LOT 1129 1846 N-20 R3+ EF45+. Sharpness near mint state but recolored a very glossy chocolate brown and steel with a few specks of darker chocolate on the obverse. The surfaces are smooth and the eye appeal is quite nice. The notable marks are a spot of darker toning under star 5 and another below the outer edge of the hair bun. LDS, die state b. The earlier die lines from the dentils under the 6 and star 13 are gone. 

Ex Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

CERTIFIED PROOF 1846 N-21

LOT 1130 1846 N-21 R5 (R8 as a proof) Hole in Ear, PCGS graded Proof-64 Brown. Light olive and steel brown with traces of mellowed mint color in protected areas, mostly on the reverse. The fields are reflective with shallow to moderately deep mirrors, deepest on the obverse. Those fields are covered with very fine die polishing lines and display many of the very tiny struck-through lint marks characteristic of proof strikes. The rims are squared and the strike is sharp with full radials in all the stars except for #1. There is strong strike doubling on the reverse. The notable defects are a small spot of very fine carbon below the right foot of the I in UNITED and another very well hidden between the leaf and berry left of the O in ONE. Very early die state (VEDS), die state a. The die cracks through the date and most stars are faint. Called Proof-60+ by Denis Loring and Proof-61 by Del Bland. Walter Breen also called this piece a proof, one of only two listed in his proof census for N-21. Our grade is MS62+ Prooflike, CC#2 behind a marginally finer example of the variety in the Grellman census but the finer of the two judged to be Proof strikes. The true proof status of this cent is open to debate, but since Breen, Loring, Bland, and PCGS all see it as a Proof then the debate sure seems to lean strongly in that direction. But we can all agree this is a sharp, attractive example of a rare variety. And it comes with a great provenance. The attribution and Twin Leaf Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label. 502707.64/14300224 Ex Thomas L. Elder 6/6/1911:1361-Hillyer Ryder, New Netherlands Coin Co. 9/26/1953:924-Floyd T. Starr, Stack’s 6/13/1984:497-Heritage Auctions 5/1990:608-Denis W. Loring 1994-R. S. Brown, Jr. 4/17/1999-Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/30/2011:166-W. M. “Jack” Wadlington (The Twin Leaf Collection), Stack’s Bowers 7/16/2015:2415-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

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