The Midwest Summer Sale 2011
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Please Note: A 15% Buyers' Premium is added to the hammer price of all lots in this sale.
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Lot Title:
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1799 (S-189) "perfect date" Fine details/impaired.
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Description:
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Sharpness is at least as strong as Fine-plus, and the color is a remarkably nice shade of leather-brown, with good, hard surface quality that exhibits fine microporosity only under close magnification. Unfortunately, the planchet is slightly distorted, having received two or three sharp blows, and repeated smaller blows from a pointed instrument. Why must so many 1799s display abuse? The most distress was caused by a single blunt dig, right into the center of Liberty's head, but there's a significant scrape on the extreme left of the reverse, too. Needless to say, a few trivial abrasions and one or two hairlines from normal circulation are trivial concerns compared to the intentional damage. All these caveats being stated, the date and LIBERTY are bold as can be, and few other existing 1799 large-cents will be able to challenge this one's sharpness for bragging rights. (PCGS# 001443)
This lot may contain an item not certified by ANACS, PCGS, or NGC. While Scotsman Auction Co. is typically conservative in our descriptions of items not certified by one of these companies, we cannot guarantee our grading estimation will match their grade. We highly recommend that collectors seeking items certified by a third-party grading service only bid on items that have already been certified. No lot can be returned because of a variance in judgment with regards to grade.
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Low Estimate:
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$3,000.00 |
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High Estimate:
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$3,300.00 |
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Lot Status:
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Bidding has been closed for this lot. |
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Hammered Price: |
$2,000.00
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Price Realized:
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$2,300.00 |
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Price history for items of the same classification:
No history for this lot classification has been found. |