1802 1C S-231 No Stems, RB MS(PCGS#36345)
1802 1C S-231 No Stems, RB MS (PCGS#36345)
February 2020 Pre-Long Beach U.S. & World Coin Auction #115
- 拍卖行
- Goldberg Auctioneers
- 批号
- 94
- 等级
- MS64+RB
- 价格
- 341,651
- 详细说明
- Lot 94 1802 S-231 R1 Stemless Wreath. PCGS graded MS-64+ Red & Brown.Lustrous medium steel brown and light olive with delicate overtones of light bluish steel and 15% of the original mint color remaining on both sides. There is a small area of slightly darker chocolate brown toning at ERT in LIBERTY, a couple barely visible specks of similar toning in the field left of the hair ribbon, and a small swipe of dark steel toning off the leaf tip below the first T in STATES. The only notable contact mark is a thin diagonal nick high on the neck. The surfaces are satiny and this cent has great eye appeal; the reverse is gem. Nicely struck E-MDS, Breen state II, before the die crack at RTY. Called MS63 and CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #20100. Bland says MS63 and finest known as well. Our grade is Mint State-63+. This is the undisputed finest known Stemless Wreath 1802 cent known, regardless of the die variety. Both sides of this cent are plated in the 1879 Frossard monograph, and it is the plate coin for the variety in the Noyes reference on the cents of 1793-1814. A "must-have" cent for the collector of the finest Registry collection of "Redbook" varieties. And it comes with a wonderful provenance, which you would expect for such an important cent. The attribution and Doug Bird Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; none finer and the only RB graded at PCGS.(PCGS # 36345) Value $75,000 - UP Ex George W. Merritt, Edouard Frossard 1/3/1879:142-Thomas Warner, S. H. & H. Chapman 6/9/1884:3015-Richard B. Winsor, S. H. & H. Chapman 12/16/1895:876-S. H. & H. Chapman-unknown-Charles J. DuPont (Anderson-DuPont Sale), Stack's 9/24/1954:367-Doris E. Nelson-Toby and Doris E. (Nelson) Syzmanski (The "TAD" Collection), Stack's 2/6/1976:64-Jesse Iskowitz-Steve Wander-Daryl Mercer (Tebo Coin Co.) 5/1980-Del Bland 6/1980-R. E. Naftzger, Jr.-Naftzger Estate, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 9/14/2008:184-Douglas F. Bird Collection.