1839 1C Silly Head, BN MS(PCGS#1748)

The Collectors' Auction - 2020

Commissaire-priseur

Scotsman

Numéro du lot

682

Grade

MS64BN

Prix

2 242

Description du lot

Newcomb-9, the "silly head". The thin die crack bisecting the obverse helps to immediately identify the die-marriage. Utterly delightful root beer-brown color douses virtually the entire surface, but permits some very subtle peeps of brick-red to shine through. This is an extensively lustrous coin, more so than one might expect of a "brown" designation, accompanied by hardly any signs at all of handling.