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1817 N-17 R4 PCGS Fine Detail Cleaning

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1817 N-17 R4 PCGS Fine Detail Cleaning
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2,500.00USD+ (500.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2023 Apr 29 @ 19:59UTC-5 : EST/CDT
Rather glossy dark steel and olive brown with lighter steel toning on the devices. The planchet is covered with extremely faint granularity but there is no verdigris and the eye appeal is decent. Perhaps the "Cleaning" assessment by PCGS was meant to be "Environmental Damage." Just a few trivial marks including a couple light nicks at the first 1 in the date plus one more in the field right of star 4. Extremely rare terminal die state with a fully raised cud break connecting TATE to the rim. There is strike weakness at the 18 and star 1 because the cud break gobbled up so much of the planchet metal. We know of two other examples in this die state with a complete (not retained) rim cud, both inferior to the one offered here. Our grade is net VG10. A prize for the collector of important die states. The attribution and Twin Leaf Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label.

Ex Clinton Hollins 2/1982-Jack H. Robinson, Superior 1/29/1989:699-Dennis Mendelson, Superior 2/3/1991:244-Dennis Mendelson-Wesley A. Rasmussen 4/1991-Dennis Mendelson 7/1998-Jack Wadlington (The Twin Leaf Collection), Stack's Bowers 7/16/2015:2036-Chris McCawley-Doctor Thomas Wachtel Collection (includes the Mendelson collection envelope, the Wadlington collection notes, and the last 2 lot tickets)