August 2023 Global Showcase Auction – 14 - 21 August 2023
Live Sessions: Ancient and World Coins, Currency
Part B: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part D: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part C: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 3: We, 16.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 16.08.2023, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part 5: We, 16.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Th, 17.08.2023, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part E: Th, 17.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Th, 17.08.2023, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Fr, 18.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 10: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Mo, 21.08.2023, from 4:00 PM CEST
Description
1846 Braided Hair Cent. N-1. Rarity-1. Small Date. MS-65 RB (PCGS). CAC.
This is a lustrous and frosty Gem with plenty of mint red color to both sides. Mottled steel-brown and olive patina is most pronounced in the centers. Sharply struck with few marks of consequence, faint speckles of carbon are the primary impediments to an even higher Mint State grade. One of the carbon spots, that over the letter T in CENT, serves as a useful identifier. Grellman Die State a, "rare," and struck from an uncracked obverse. In his cataloging of this coin in the 2009 Naftzger Collection sale Bob Grellman noted that it was ranked CC#1 in the Noyes census with an EAC grade of MS66, and "MS-65+, very close to MS66, and tied for CC#1 in the Grellman census."
PCGS# 397609. NGC ID: 226C.
From B. Max Mehl's sale of the William Cutler Atwater Collection, June 1946, lot 105; Ira & Larry Goldberg's sale of the Ted Naftzger Collection, Part III, September 2009 Pre-Long Beach Auction, lot 703. Goldberg's lot tag, Naftzger collector envelope and J.R. Grellman tag with attribution and provenance notes included.
Estimate: $4000
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Bidding
| Price realized | 4'200 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 4'000 USD |
