Summer 2022 Global Showcase Auction – 22 - 28 August 2022
Live Sessions: U.S. Coins & Currency
Part 2: Tu, 23.08.2022, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 3: Tu, 23.08.2022, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 24.08.2022, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 5: Th, 25.08.2022, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Th, 25.08.2022, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Th, 25.08.2022, from 11:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Fr, 26.08.2022, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part 9: Sa, 27.08.2022, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 10: Sa, 27.08.2022, from 11:00 PM CEST
Description
1854 Braided Hair Cent. N-8. Rarity-1. MS-65 RD (PCGS).
This handsome Gem is ideally suited for inclusion in a high quality type set. It is aglow with vivid reddish-orange mint color, the surfaces with a few glints of pale steely tinting evident as the coin rotates under a light. Satiny in texture and predominantly smooth, a pair of carbon spots at the lower left reverse border are the only impediments to an even higher grade. Bob Grellman (2021) reports for the 1854 Newcomb-8 variety: "More than fifty seen in Mint State; ten of those show significant amount of mint red, many others have traces of mint red visible." The present example is one of the finer in the former category, a typical Die State b coin with a generally well executed strike. Very nice!
PCGS# 1906. NGC ID: 226L.
PCGS Population (all die marriages of the issue): 13; with a single MS-66 RD finer.
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Bidding
| Price realized | 4'400 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 4'000 USD |
