1822 50C O-103 MS(PCGS#39587)

January 2019 Mail Bid Auction 48

Commissaire-priseur

Sheridan Downey

Numéro du lot

94

Grade

XF45BN

Prix

550

Description du lot

A pleasant surprise for the consignor when I told him that he’d “cherried” an R.5.  The streaks at star 7 and atop the left wing are “drift marks,” imperfections in the planchet strips that survived the imperfect refining processes of the early Mint.  They affect eye-appeal, of course, but must not be viewed as damage.  This lightly circulated rarity retains much of its original luster.  Struck from an early state of the dies.   Est. $900 to $1,250.