Large Cents 1803 NC-1 R5+ Small Date & Fraction, VF Detail,

Large Cents
1803 NC-1 R5+ Small Date & Fraction, VF Detail, Environmental Damage, PCGS. Steel brown with lighter brown toning on the highpoints. Covered with uniform fine granularity that dulls the surfaces, but there is no verdigris and the eye appeal of this cent is decent. Just a few marks including a nick on the forehead, another left of the eye, one before the throat, and a vertical hairline over the ear. The date and legends are all strong. EDS, Breen state I, with an uncracked reverse. Graded F15 net VG8 and tied for CC#10 in the Noyes census, his photo #22998. Bland says net VG10 and CC#6. This cataloger's EAC grade is net VG8+, close to VG10. The attribution is noted on the PCGS label. 36392.97/47249988.
Ex Arch Cook 12/1/1963-C. Douglas Smith 4/22/1992-Eric Streiner, Superior 10/11/1992:141-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 1/27/1996:348-Walter J. Husak Collection.

Little is known of Arch Cook who sold this 1803 NC-1 cent to C. Douglas Smith in 1963. His name appeared as the bourse chairman for an October 1964 notice of a Hempstead, Long Island, New York coin show. The notice gives his address in Massapequa, New York.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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