Pre-Long Beach Auction #84

1847 N-4 R3 Repunched 18 NGC graded MS64 Red & Brown. Lustrous mint red fading to steel brown and light olive with 20% of the red remaining on the obverse and at least half of the mint color showing on the reverse. A beautiful cent in every respect. The only marks are a tiny planchet flake between the date and star 13 (as struck) and some faint specks of slightly darker toning scattered over the reverse, none notable. Sharply struck E-MDS, die state b, with some faint die cracks through the top of the legend outside the wreath (uncracked examples are quite rare). The repunching on the 18 is sharp. Our grade is MS63+, very close to MS64. CC#2 behind a marginally superior example in the Grellman census.
Estimated Value $1,000-UP.
Ex Doug Bird-Doug Durasoff.