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25.00USDby j*****8+ applicable fees & taxes.
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2025 May 31 @ 17:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Sale to be held at:
Sheraton Arlington
1500 Convention Center Dr.
Arlington, TX
Beautiful steel brown and light olive with underlying lighter brown on the obverse. The fields are reflective and the only marks are faint hairlines on the obverse. EDS with the sharpest possible strike; it looks like a choice Proof. In fact Walter Breen called it a Proof on page 80 in his 1977 reference Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of United States and Colonial Proof Coins 1722-1977. Other researchers have questioned his assessment but this cent does look at least as nice as many of the Proof-Only issues of 1840-1857 large cents. And it certainly is comparable to the 1846 N-21 PCGS graded PR64BN offered later in this sale. When I wrote the 2021 reference The Die Varieties of United States Large Cents 1840-1857 I had not yet examined the DuPont-TAD cent offered here. I referenced the Breen proof claim in a note at the bottom of the page and stated "the existence of a Proof strike of N-2 is highly doubtful." Now I am not so sure. This cent does look like a Proof. You decide.Ex Charles J. DuPont, Stack's Anderson-DuPont Sale, 9/24/1954:850-Dorothy E. Nelson-Toby and Dorothy E. (Nelson) Syzmanski (The TAD Collection), Stack's 2/4/1976:146-Tom Morley 4/25/1980-Fred Clymer-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection
Auction Location:
Box 6400, Austin, Texas, 78762, United States
Previewing Details:
May 28 through May 31
During Show hours or by appointment
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Kevin Vinton, P.O. Box 771, Danbury CT 06813-0771 email: kevin@indeetlib.com phone: 203-305-4710
Chris McCawley, P.O. Box 6400, Austin, TX 78762
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