98

1803 S-248 R4 "Mumps" Obverse with Doubled Fraction Bar MS60

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:NA
1803 S-248 R4  Mumps  Obverse with Doubled Fraction Bar MS60
SOLD
7,000.00USD+ buyer's premium (1,400.00)
This item SOLD at 2023 Jul 01 @ 18:51UTC-5 : EST/CDT
Lustrous light olive brown and rose with delicate overtones of light bluish steel. Dipped long ago and nicely retoned. Very sharply struck and the only identifying marks are a very light diagonal nick low on the neck and two small puffs of lighter brown toning in the field before the face. EDS, Breen state II early, with an extremely faint crack through the top of the I in AMERICA not reaching either of the adjacent letters. The lump at the throat ("Mumps") and the doubled fraction bar are strong. Plated in the 1991 Noyes reference on the cents of 1793-1814 to illustrate the variety. Second finest in both the Noyes and Bland census lists, and it comes with a nice provenance.

Ex an old collection in Texas-L. R. Davis McKinney, Jr.-House of Davis McKinney (Auction #19) 1/1963:171-Dorothy I. Paschal-Dr. William H. Sheldon 4/19/1972-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992-Eric Streiner-Jack H. Beymer Collection (includes the Naftzger collection envelope showing he graded this cent MS65)