Terry Denman Collection of Middle Dates Part 1

THE TERRY DENMAN COLLECTION 

NEWCOMB PLATE COIN

LOT 8 1816 N-6 R2 PCGS graded MS63 Brown . Lustrous medium steel brown and light chocolate with generous traces of faded mint color in protected areas, mostly on the reverse. The only notable mark is a spot of chocolate brown toning at the right point of star 3. MDS, die state a, with a small lump on the lower loop of the 6 and fine radial die flowlines in the field around the stars. A very nice cent, close to choice. Graded MS62 and CC#2 in the Bland census. Noyes says MS60 and tied for CC#2, his photo #27242. Our grade is MS60+. This is the plate coin for the die variety in the 1944 Newcomb reference (Plate I, obverse 6, reverse F). 36538.63/83246180 Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau & Co., 5/16/1945:493-Floyd T. Starr, Stack’s 6/13/1984:75-John J. Nicholas, Jr., Superior 2/2/1992:487-unknown-Bowers & Merena 1/26/1996:1070-Manuel Ahumada, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 6/4/2017:6-Terry S. Denman Collection

LOT 9 1816 N-7 R3 PCGS graded MS64 Brown . Lustrous steel brown with golden tan faded down from mint color in protected areas. There is an area of darker toning on the lower cheek and upper neck and a spot of very fine carbon on the berries left of the O in ONE. Otherwise quite nice with trivial contact marks including a small scratch right of the F in OF. MDS, die state b. Most but not all of the dentils remain visible and the left top of the second T in STATES is still clear. Graded Mint State net AU50 in the Noyes census, his photo #27080. Bland says MS60. Our grade is MS60. Comes with a nice provenance. 1591.64/14300197 Ex Garry Fitzgerald 8/1964-Jon Hanson-Jack Collins-C. Douglas Smith 3/1980-John J. Nicholas, Superior 2/2/1992:488-Anthony J. Terranova 1992-March Wells, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 2/7/2000:1734-Wesley A. Rasmussen, Heritage Auctions 1/13/2005:3368-Chris McCawley 2005-March Wells, 2013 EAC Sale, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 5/4/2013:268-Terry S. Denman Collection

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