1823 1C Private Restrike, RB MS(PCGS#81629)

May 2010 Pre-Long Beach Auction #59

Auctioneer

Goldberg Auctioneers

Lot Number

180

Grade

MS64RB

Price

1,668

Lot Description

Lot 180 1823 Restrike MS63.PCGS graded MS-64 Red & Brown.Frosty slightly faded mint red mellowing to light bluish steel brown, at least a third of the red color remaining. Virtually as struck with only a few trivial defects, including a tiny speck of carbon at the rim above star 7. There is a tiny planchet depression on the rim at ED in UNITED, as struck, which later fills in to form a small rim cud. MDS with the earlier bisecting obverse crack and a fine die crack from the reverse rim to the D in UNITED that now extends into the wreath under the adjacent S in STATES and into the field above the N in ONE where it fades out. The reverse is rotated 30 degrees CCW. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS64 Red & Brown (NGC label included, and it shows the attribution and Reiver provenance). Weight 163.0 grains. Our grade is MS63. Pop3; 4 in 65RB. Only 7 graded at PCGS in Red Brown.DWH #2912 (PCGS # 81629) . Estimated Value $1,500-UP. Ex George Ramont-Jules Reiver, Heritage 1/24/06:19825.