1842 1C Large Date, RD MS(PCGS#1837)

August 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1121

等级

MS64RD

价格

54,187

详细说明

Original Full Red Uncirculated 1842 Large Date Cent Newcomb-6, 10 The Koshkarian-ESM Specimen 1842 Braided Hair Cent. N-6, 10. Rarity-1. Large Date. MS-64 RD (PCGS). Type:Braided Hair. Design: Obv: A head of Liberty faces left with 13 stars around the border and the date 1842 below. She is wearing a coronet inscribed LIBERTY, her hair tied into a bun at the back of her head by a beaded cord. Rev: A circular wreath encloses the denomination ONE CENT with the legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA around the border. Weight Standard: 10.89 grams. Diameter: 27.5 mm. Die Variety: Newcomb-6, 10. Obv: Large Date, the point of the curl over the left side of the upright of the digit 4. The 1842 N-6, 10 represents the only use of this obverse die. Rev: Early states show die lines between the border and the letters NITE in UNITED and a vertical line from the border up through the ribbon end and wreath below the letter E in CENT. The 1842 N-6, 10 also represents the only use of this reverse die. Seven die marriages of this issue correspond to the Large Date Guide Bookvariety of the 1842 Braided Hair cent: N-3, N-4, N-5, N-6 (10), N-7, N-8 and N-9. Die State: Grellman d, Noyes B/C. Obv: The die is worn with die dots from earlier states before Liberty's lip and between the curl and star 12 now no longer visible. The denticles are soft, the field rough and flowlined. Rev: All die lines are gone due to die wear, but there is now a tiny die dot at the inside leaf in the wreath to the right of the letter E in ONE. Denticulation is somewhat soft with light roughness in the field. This late die state corresponds to the N-10 attribution for the issue, which was once thought to be a separate variety but has since been identified as an advanced state of the N-6 dies. Edge: Plain. Mintage for the Issue: 2,383,390 coins. Estimated Surviving Population for the Die Variety: Rarity-1: More than 1,500 coins in all grades. Strike: The strike is impressively sharp for this late die state example, the hair strands just as Christian Gobrecht intended when he designed the motif. The stars all have their radial lines from the center, and the date is bold. The denticles are all present on the obverse, some sharper than others commensurate with the die state. The reverse, slightly misaligned to 3 o'clock, is sharply struck over the focal features and illustrates the motif perfectly. The denticles are somewhat similar to the obverse, all present, but some sharper than others, again due to die state. Surfaces: The fields are richly and warmly lustrous, predominantly original mint orange-red, with a few splashes of brown, natural fading, with a blush of deeper lilac toning in the upper left field on the obverse. The seemingly inevitable flyspecks are present, most so small as to be inconspicuous. A shallow planchet flaw at the back of Liberty's jaw, carbon spot at the reverse border outside the letters TE in UNITED, and another carbon spot nestled between the ribbon end and lowest leaf on the left half of the wreath serve as useful identifiers. Commentary: An old friend, we (American Numismatic Rarities) handled this condition rarity 1842 cent in our March 2004 sale of the fabulous Haig A. Koshkarian Collection, when it was partially described as: "A key word for the copper cents in the Koshkarian Collection is original color. Today, many high-grade pieces have been artificially colored, retoned, or whatever. Not everyone can tell the difference, and more than just a few recolored pieces have entered certification holders. Accordingly, some degree of connoisseurship is needed to separate the wheat from the chaff. With this coin, and also with the others in the Koshkarian Collection, you can introduce your own connoisseurship, but with the assurance that you are building on a very firm foundation, as this collection was gathered with as much care as just about any other with which we have ever been familiar." Obviously the ESM collector exercised his own connoisseurship, for in selecting this coin to represent the Large Date Guide Bookvariety of the 1842 cent he acquired one of the few examples of this date with so much original mint red color remaining. Premium quality in all regards, and worthy of the strongest bids. Provenance: From the ESM Collection. Earlier ex Paramount, March 1967; Haig A. Koshkarian; our (American Numismatic Rarities') sale of the Haig A. Koshkarian Collection, March 2004 Classics Sale, lot 14; Heritage's Pittsburgh, PA Signature Sale of August 2004, lot 5126. PCGS Population (all die marriages of the Large Date variety): 3; 3 finer in this category (MS-65 RD finest). PCGS# 1837. NGC ID: 2268. Click here for certification details from PCGS.