Pre-Long Beach Auction #84

1849 N-1 R4- EF40. Nice glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Smooth and attractive showing only trivial marks. A small nick or planchet flake high on the neck is a good identifying mark. M-LDS die state d, with a horizontal line through the center of the O in OF (Newcomb's #15) and crumbling nestled under the left top of the E in CENT. A series of narrow rim cuds covers most of the rim from star 5 to star 12.
Estimated Value $150-UP.
Ex Garry Fitzgerald 8/1968-G. M. Pat Patterson, Kagin's 5/1988:1277 (via Doug Bird)-Gary M. Ruttenberg, McCawley & Grellman Auctions 8/1995:481-Evan Kopald, McCawley & Grellman FPL 2006-Doug Durasoff.