Terry Denman Collection of Middle Dates Part 1

EARLY CENTS AUCTIONS

LOT 159 1828 N-5 R2 PCGS graded MS63 Brown, CAC Approved . Lustrous light brown with steel brown toning on the cheek and faded mint red in some protected areas on both sides. Sharp and satiny with radial lines in the stars and crisp dentils. Just a few marks including three dull dents on the jawline plus a speck of carbon under star 11. The marks on the jawline do catch your eye, but the eye appeal remains quite nice, a fact attested to by the CAC approval. The reverse is choice. MDS, die state b, with a fine die crack through the top of TED. Graded MS60 net AU50 and tied for CC#5 in the Noyes census, his photo #21788. Our grade is MS63 net MS60. 36886.63/30812867 Ex John P. Young, Barney Bluestone 9/1945:733-James A. Stack, Sr.-Bowers & Ruddy 4/1979:211 (as MS63)-R. E. “Ted” Naftzger, Jr., 1989 EAC Sale, lot 292 (as MS60)-R. S. “Robbie” Brown, Jr., Superior 1/27/1996:536 (as MS60)-W. M. “Jack” Wadlington (The Twin Leaf Collection), Stack’s Bowers 7/16/2015:2159-Terry S. Denman Collection

 FINEST TERMINAL STATE 1828 N-5

LOT 160 1828 N-5 R2 EF40+ . Choice glossy light to medium brown with frosty golden tan toning in protected areas. The only marks are two small pinpricks in the field off the chin, a couple more at the tip of the lower right point of star 3, and a tiny rim nick at the U in UNITED. Very rare terminal die state with a strong cud break joining TED to the rim above. Near the lower end of the condition census for the variety but finest known of the terminal die state by a wide margin. Called EF40 in the Noyes census, his photo #26739. This is the Noyes plate coin for the die state in his 1991 reference on the cents of 1816-1839. A very important cent for the collector of significant die states. 

Ex George Ramont 8/9/1977-Jules Reiver, Heritage Auctions 1/24/2006:19894-Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 5/30/2010:260-Chris McCawley 8/9/2012-Terry S. Denman Collection

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