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1839 N-12 R4 Booby Head PCGS AU Detail Cleaned

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:NA
1839 N-12 R4 Booby Head PCGS AU Detail Cleaned
NOT SOLD (BIDDING OVER), HIGH BID WAS
25.00USD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2023 Jun 24 @ 18:00UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Sharpness at least EF40 but lightly cleaned and nicely retoned glossy chocolate brown and steel with lighter brown on the obverse highpoints. The surfaces are satiny and nearly void of marks. A tiny tick in the field off the end of the nose and a thin nick right of star 1 are the only notable marks. MDS with a clear die crack through star 4 to the nose ending below the eye. This cent has excellent eye appeal and it is the plate coin for the variety in the John Wright reference on the cents of 1816-1839. Our grade is VF35. The attribution and Colonel Ellsworth Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS label.
Ex F. Shaskin-Garry F. Fitzgerald 1/1981-Del Bland-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 9/30/1986:898-J. R. Frankenfield, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 2/17/2001:1203-McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 5/2003:896-2006 EAC Sale, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 5/6/2006:410-Colonel Steven K. Ellsworth Collection (includes the Frankenfield and EAC lot tickets)
37249.92/44293960