August 2023 Global Showcase Auction – 14 - 21 August 2023
Live Sessions: Ancient and World Coins, Currency
Part B: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part D: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part C: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 3: We, 16.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 16.08.2023, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part 5: We, 16.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Th, 17.08.2023, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part E: Th, 17.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Th, 17.08.2023, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Fr, 18.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 10: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Mo, 21.08.2023, from 4:00 PM CEST
Description
1850 Braided Hair Cent. N-7. Rarity-2. MS-65 RB (PCGS). CAC.
At least 70% of the original autumn-orange mint color remains to surfaces that also show light mellowing to pale olive-brown. Traces of an ancient finger mark at the upper obverse border are noted, a dull nick in the lower right obverse field also useful for provenance purposes. Grellman Die State a, late. In September 2009, Bob Grellman described this coin as "MS64 and tied for CC#11 in the Noyes census...Our grade is MS65, tied for CC#3 in the Grellman census." This lot includes PCGS insert #90031458 with a grade of MS-64 RB from an earlier certification of this coin.
PCGS# 405881. NGC ID: 226G.
From our (Stack's) sale of the Mrs. Henry Ford Collection, December 1951, lot 382; Ira & Larry Goldberg's sale of the Ted Naftzger Collection, Part III, September 2009 Pre-Long Beach Auction, lot 982. Goldberg's lot tag, Naftzger and other collector envelopes/tags, and J.R. Grellman tag with attribution and provenance notes included.
Estimate: $2000
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Bidding
| Price realized | 1'500 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 2'000 USD |
