1833 1C Newcomb 6, RB MS(PCGS#37034)

May 2010 Pre-Long Beach Auction #59

Commissaire-priseur

Goldberg Auctioneers

Numéro du lot

385

Grade

MS63RB

Prix

5 290

Description du lot

Lot 385 1833 N-6 R1 MS63.PCGS graded MS-64 Red & Brown.Frosty light steel brown with a third of the mint red remaining, mostly on the reverse. The surfaces are satiny and show only a few trivial defects, including a thin and very light scuff in the field left of star 13, a few microscopic specks of darker toning in the field above star 1, and a couple faint specks of very fine carbon near the wreath under the second A in AMERICA. A beautiful cent offering outstanding eye appeal for the grade. LDS. There is a small lump (actually an internal cud) inside the bottom of the N in UNITED where a piece of the die fell out between the two die cracks, and the reverse is rotated 20 degrees CW. Removed from an NGC slab graded MS64RB (NGC label included). Our grade is MS63. The only Red Brown example graded at PCGS. A total of 2 graded for the variety.DWH #2618. Estimated Value $2,000-UP. Ex Stuart Levine 4/16/99-Wes Rasmussen, Heritage 1/13/05:3614 (the attribution and Rasmussen provenance are noted on the NGC label).