Ralph Rucker Collection Fixed Price Pt II

S-169

THE BROWN-HUSAK S-169

LOT 227 1798 S-169 R3 Small 8, Style II Hair VF30 Glossy steel brown and chocolate with traces of lighter brown and tan on the obverse. The surfaces are smooth. The only notable marks are a small rim bruise at the E in UNITED, a tiny rim nick under the fraction, and a nick on the first 0 in the denominator. M-LDS, Breen state IV, with obvious swelling through the top of LIBERTY and along the dentils tips before the portrait. Graded VF35 and tied for CC#7 in the Bland census. Noyes says VF30 and CC#6, his photo #28528. Struck with the obverse die slightly misaligned to K-7.5. Removed from a PCGS slab graded XF45 (PCGS label #36077.45/13457935). $4,250

Ex McLaughlin & Robinson Auctions 2/1988:77-R. S. Brown, Jr., 1/27/1996:235 (as VF35)-Walter J. Husak, Heritage Auctions 2/15/2008:2172 (as VF35)