Terry Denman Collection of Middle Dates Part 1

EARLY CENTS AUCTIONS

 PROOFLIKE FINEST 1827 N-3

LOT 145 1827 N-3 R2 PCGS graded MS66 Brown . The obverse is a fabulous bluish steel and light chocolate brown with traces of faded mint color showing through in protected areas. The reverse is mint red mellowing to light chocolate brown on the devices, about a third of the original color remaining. This cent has outstanding luster and eye appeal, and the surfaces are virtually flawless. A small spot of slightly darker reddish chocolate toning is well hidden in the hair over the left side of the R in LIBERTY and a tiny tick shows on the tip of the chin. A tiny spot of lighter tan toning at the right point of star 9 is a good identifying mark. Sharply struck EDS with prooflike fields on the obverse (the reverse die was used in a prior marriage and those fields are satiny). The always present die crack from star 1 to star 6 is very faint. Called MS65 and finest known in both the Noyes and Bland census lists, Noyes photo #20795. The Noyes census lists only 2 examples in mint state, this piece and an MS62, while the example offered here is the only confirmed mint state piece in the Bland census. This beautiful cent is clearly the finest of the variety and is certainly among the finest of the year, regardless of the die variety. Our grade is MS65 prooflike. (Housed in a special PCGS holder for the D. Brent Pogue Collection.). 36844.66/32708462  Ex Guttag Brothers-T. James Clarke 10/1954-R. E. “Ted” Naftzger, Jr.- Naftzger Estate, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 2/1/2009:190 D. Brent Pogue Collection, Stack’s Bowers/Sotheby’s 3/31/2017:5164-Terry S. Denman Collection

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