Pre-Long Beach Auction #84

1793 S-1 R4 Chain AMERI. VG7. Very slightly sharper but the fields and protected areas are covered with extremely faint granularity that's mostly hidden under attractive partly glossy medium chocolate brown toning. No verdigris, only very light contact marks. The notable ones are a small rim bruise under the 9 in the date, another on the rim opposite the nose, some barely visible hairline scratches hidden in the toning on the reverse, and a series of tiny rim nicks at NITED. MDS, Breen state II. Shallow swelling weakens the bottom of the 1 in the date and the top of the U in UNITED, but there is no crack at TAT in STATES. The date is easily readable although the lower part of the 1 & 9 are gone. The legends are complete and clear. A decent example of our Mint's first large cent.
Estimated Value $10,000-UP.
Ex L. Khalsa-Doug Bird 4/5/2008-Ed Leitner.