1846 1C N-15, BN MS(PCGS#403895)

1846 1C N-15, BN MS (PCGS#403895)

February 2011 Pre-Long Beach Auction #62

Lot Description: Satiny bluish steel brown with faded mint color showing through on about 25% of each side. A small spot of very slightly darker toning in the field left of star 11 and a tiny planchet flake at the dentils under the ribbon loop at the bottom of the wreath are the best identifying marks, and they are barely visible. Would rate a choice grade except for some extremely faint hairlines on the obverse. Very sharply struck E-MDS, die state b. The obverse die cracks are weak but visible and a very fine crack extends up to the dentils from the center of the left top of the U in UNITED. CC#6 in the Grellman census. Removed from an NCS slab graded Uncirculated details improperly cleaned (the NCS label is included, and it shows the attribution and Reiver provenance). Comes with a great provenance. DWH #2975. Estimated Value $1,000-UP. Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau 5/16/45:743 (with the Newcomb collection box)-Floyd T. Starr, Stack?s 6/13/84:489-Jules Reiver, Heritage 1/24/06:20250.