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1796 S-98 R4 Draped Bust VF30

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:NA
1796 S-98 R4 Draped Bust VF30
SOLD
6,500.00USD+ buyer's premium (1,300.00)
This item SOLD at 2024 May 18 @ 19:31UTC-4 : AST/EDT
At least ten points sharper but lightly cleaned long ago and the field before the portrait was delicately smoothed. Now beautifully retoned glossy light to medium chocolate brown. Very attractive, void of any additional defects other than some microscopic planchet chips under the date, a very fine horizontal planchet void in the field off the lower end of the hair ribbon, and a flake on the upper part of the F in OF (all as struck). MDS, Breen state II, showing die clashmarks on both sides. Called EF45 net VF25 and tied for CC#5 in the Noyes census, his photo #32076. Bland says EF40 net VF25 and CC#4 in his census. Both assessments were made before this cent had retoned completely. The finest known example is impounded in the ANS collection, so the pool of really nice ones is quite limited. A sharp, attractive cent that comes with a nice provenance. Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau & Co. 2/7/1945:96 (as uncirculated)-Abe Kosoff (Numismatic Gallery)-unknown-Louisville Numismatic Exchange 5/1990-March Wells, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 2/1/2009:578-R. J. Rudolph Collection-McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 6/2016:129-the Clackamas Collection (includes the Wells collection envelope and Goldberg lot ticket)