1803 1C 100/000, BN MS(PCGS#911501)

November 2019 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

3011

等级

MS62BN

价格

65,414

详细说明

Sharp Mint State Cent Popular Mumps Obverse 1803 Draped Bust Cent. S-249. Rarity-2. 1/100 Over 1/000. MS-62 BN (PCGS). A delightful example of this popular and readily attributable die marriage. The surfaces are predominantly smooth in hand with a hard, satiny texture. Blended autumn-brown and olive-copper patina dominates the coin's appearance, the obverse with a few splashes of bolder reddish-gray that are most prominent at the right border. The strike is nicely centered with sharp to full detail throughout, the reverse rotated approximately 30 degrees counterclockwise from normal coin alignment. There are no marks of consequence, the aforementioned toning on the obverse serving as this coin's most useful identifying feature. Noyes Die State E/B. Sheldon-249 is the only variety of the 1803-dated Draped Bust cent issue with the digit 1 in the fraction punched over an erroneous 0, although this reverse die was also used in the 1801 NC-3 pairing. The obverse of S-249 is also popular with specialists as the "Mumps Obverse," a prominent die lump readily evident under Liberty's jaw at the junction with the top of the neck. This sharp early die state example is within the top 12 examples in the census provided by William C. Noyes in the 2015 reference United States Large Cents: 1802-1814. Provenance: From Pine Tree's EAC '75 sale, lot 758; Pine Tree's sale of October 1976, lot 222; Pine Tree's sale of September 1978, lot 667; Harmer Rooke's Gemini II Collection sale, September 1980, lot 70. PCGS# 911501. Click here for certification details from PCGS.