1843 1C N-16 Mature Hd Lg Lt, BN MS65BN 认证号34700122, PCGS号405949

CAC approved. N16; R4. Mature Head Large Letters. An important late date and tied for the finest known of this rare R-4 variety. Lustrous, frosty light to medium steel brown with nearly 25% of the mellowed mint color remaining, mostly on the obverse. The best identifying marks are a tiny nick on the coronet over B and a very tiny rim nick above the O in OF. The obverse fields show several very tiny lint marks where specks of debris were stuck on the die. Sharply struck die state a (there is no state b). All the fine die lines and points are clear, and the fields are satiny from microscopic die flowlines. Was a MS64+ CAC when sold by Goldberg on 6/17; now it’s a MS65 CAC. Provenance: Ex James G. Macallister 10/20/1930 – unknown – Stack’s 3/17/1987, lot 220 – Manuel Ahumada 3/1997 – Robinson S. Brown, Jr., Superior 6/2/2002, lot 159 – Dan Holmes, Goldberg’s 1/30/2011, lot 69 – Gene Heard, Goldberg’s 6/2017, lot 353 - Robert Kellert.