Ralph Rucker Collection Fixed Price Pt II

S-186

SUPERBLY PEDIGREED S-186

LOT 250

1798 S-186 R2 Small 8, Style II Hair VF35 Ten points sharper but there are a few light rim bruises on each side of an otherwise beautiful cent. The notable rim bruises are off the lower end of the hair ribbon, over the I in LIBERTY, and at ER in AMERICA. Choice glossy medium chocolate brown with steel brown toning on the highpoints and frosty mint luster in protected areas. M-LDS, Breen state VII. A cud break reaches both 0’s in the denominator. A beautiful cent and a neat die state, but the rim bruises are a distraction. The reverse of this piece is plated in Dr. Sheldon’s Early American Cents to illustrate the late state of Reverse B of 1799. Called EF40 net VF35 and tied for CC#6 in the Bland census. Noyes says EF40 net VF35 and tied for CC#6 as well, his photo #24117. Comes with an old provenance that includes some luminaries among large cent collectors. $2,250 Ex Charles Stehlin, Thomas L. Elder 4/27/1917:441-Elmer S. Sears Hillyer Ryder 5/1945-Wayte Raymond-New Netherlands Coin Co. #41, 9/26/1953:265-Dorothy I. Paschal-C. Douglas Smith Gordon J. Wrubel-Ellen Enzler, Numismatic and Antiquarian Service Corporation of America (NASCA) 12/6/1978:2620 (not sold, lot envelope included)-Ellen Enzler 4/1983-Dr. Philip W. Ralls-Ralls Estate, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/26/2014:587