Pre-Long Beach Auction #84

1798 S-161 R2 Small 8, Style I Hair VF25. Glossy medium steel brown and light chocolate with traces of lighter brown toning in protected areas. No roughness or verdigris, only light contact marks. The only notable marks are a very light rim bruise under the lowest curl and a dull rim nick at IC in AMERICA, and neither mark is distracting. M-LDS, Breen state IX, with a strong cud break connecting TE in STATES to the rim with a slightly raised retained cud break affecting the adjacent TA. Very shallow low spots cover the field around the leaves under MERICA. A nice example of a neat die state. Removed from a PCGS slab graded VF30 (PCGS label #1431.30/04143203 included).
Estimated Value $750-UP.
Ex Doug Durasoff 11/2007-Ed Leitner.