1820/19 1C N-2, BN MS(PCGS#36682)

February 2020 Pre-Long Beach U.S. & World Coin Auction #115

Auctioneer

Goldberg Auctioneers

Lot Number

154

Grade

MS66BN

Price

16,800

Lot Description

Lot 154 1820/19 N-2 R2 Overdate Small 20 over 19. PCGS graded MS-66 Brown. CAC.Beautiful lustrous light steel brown and tan with mellowing mint red covering the protected areas on both sides, at least 10% of the planchet showing mint color. The surfaces are covered with satiny mint frost and the eye appeal of this cent is outstanding. The only notable marks are a small puff of lustrous darker bluish steel toning in the dentils over star 5 and another over the left top of the T in UNITED plus a speck of dark crud under the left side of star 7. Sharply struck E-MDS. Fine radial die flowlines show in the fields and the overdate feature is clearly visible under both digits. A superb example of this popular "Redbook" variety. Graded MS63 and CC#2 in the Noyes census, his photo #21302. Not seen by Bland. Our grade is MS64. The attribution and Doug Bird Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; none finer.(PCGS # 36682) Value $10,000 - UP Ex Stephen Fischer 2/2/1985-Douglas F. Bird Collection.