August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
1798 Draped Bust Cent. S-166, B-32. Rarity-1. Style II Hair. AU-50 (PCGS).
Sharply defined elsewhere, accuracy alone compels us to mention a touch of softness along the upper obverse and upper right reverse borders. The tops of the letters in those areas are affected, but they are still complete, and all peripheral words are fully legible. Deep steely olive-brown on the obverse, the reverse is mostly medium brown with a splash of charcoal-copper at lower right. The latter side is rotated nearly 45 degrees counterclockwise from normal coin alignment. Satiny surfaces are hard and tight, and while a couple of faint pin scratches on the reverse before the words ONE and CENT are discernible under magnification, there are no other significant blemishes, and certainly none that are distracting during in hand viewing. The sweeping crack on the reverse readily identifies the Sheldon-166 attribution, which pairing is the only appearance of this die.
PCGS# 1434. NGC ID: 2244.
From Kagin's ANA National Money Show Auction of March 2018, lot 1076.
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| Price realized | 2'200 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 2'800 USD |
