1787 Cent Massachusetts, BN MS(PCGS#302)

March 2018 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

3019

Grade

VF20BN

Price

432

Lot Description

1787 Massachusetts Cent. Ryder 2b-C, W-6050. Rarity-4+. Arrows in Left Talon. VF-20 (PCGS). 145.6 grains. An attractive circulated example of this elusive die variety, with even dark chocolate brown fields contrasting with lighter brown devices. Finely but inoffensively granular under a glass, with some trivial scattered pits in the right obverse field and some verdigris among the devices of the central reverse. The usual large die break between the first date digit and M of MASSACHUSETTS resembles a series of dashes, a state betweenFord:89 and Ford:90. A good looking piece, neither as pricey as the finer Ryder-Boyd-Ford coin, which brought $10,925 in our (Stack's) 2004 sale and$7,637.50 in the Partrick offering, nor as problematic as either of Ford's two duplicates. Provenance: From the Michael Demling Collection of Massachusetts Cents. Earlier ex Stack's Bowers' sale of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation Collection, March 2015, lot 2505, where it had a CAC sticker affixed when in a different holder. Purchased by Kendall from Marshall Field's on January 5, 1958. PCGS# 302. NGC ID: 2B25. Click here for certification details from PCGS.