^Lot 58 1839 N-8 R1 Head of 1840 MS64

1839 N-8 R1 Head of 1840 MS64. Beautiful lustrous steel brown and olive faded down from mint color with nearly a third of the underlying mellowed mint color showing through the toning on both sides. The surfaces are covered with satiny mint frost that is unbroken. Would rate gem status if not for faint traces of an old fingerprint in the center of the reverse. Sharply struck E-MDS. Called MS63 in the Noyes census, his photo #56030. Removed from a PCGS slab graded MS64RB (PCGS label included, and it shows the "Type of 1840" attribution).
Estimated Value $2,000-UP.

Provenance: Ex Chris McCawley 8/2003, The Northwest Collection.