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1837 N-15 R3 Plain Hair Cord PCGS graded MS63 Brown

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1837 N-15 R3 Plain Hair Cord PCGS graded MS63 Brown
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Glossy light to medium brown blending to steel brown on the reverse where generous traces of mellowed mint red remain visible. The fields are lustrous and this cent has very nice eye appeal. Looks mint state, and it has been graded at that level by many large cent experts, but there is a hint of rub on the very highest points of the devices. Only trivial marks including a faint streak of reddish brown toning from star 6 arcing into the field before the face, a speck of darker toning in the field under the end of the chin, a very faint horizontal hairline over star 1, and a few very tiny pinpricks under the I in AMERICA. M-LDS with die cracks on both sides, some quite strong on the reverse, plus narrow rim cuds on the obverse, but the area over AME has not started to sink. Graded MS60 by Del Bland and tied for finest known in his census. Our grade is AU58. A very important example of this tough variety. Comes with a nice provenance. The attribution and COL Ellsworth Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS Gold Shield label.

Certificate #37171.63/44293959

Ex Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz (who acquired it unattributed at the 1975 Central States Numismatic Society Convention)-Del Bland-C. Douglas Smith-Jerry A. Bobbe-C. Douglas Smith-Herman Halpern, Stack's 3/17/1987:208 (as MS60)-Wesley A. Rasmussen, Heritage Auctions 1/13/2005:3689 (as MS60)-Colonel Ellsworth Collection