Large Cents 1798 S-171 R4 Style II Hair, Small 8, AU55 PCGS, CAC

Large Cents
1798 S-171 R4 Style II Hair, Small 8, AU55 PCGS, CAC Approved. Frosty medium steel brown with slightly darker steel brown toning on the highpoints and lighter brown and tan in protected areas. Has the look of a mint state cent but there is a touch of wear on the highpoints of the devices. The only marks are a few microscopic ticks on the neck, a couple faint hairlines in the field over the bust tip and below the hair ribbon, a shallow nick at the left corner of the eye, and a spot of darker olive brown toning at the left end of the wreath ribbon. MDS, Breen state IV, with a cud break left of the L in LIBERTY. Graded VF35 and CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #28384. Bland says VF35 and tied for CC#4. This cataloger's EAC grade is EF40. Comes with a nice provenance. The attribution and Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS Gold Shield label. PCGS population 1; 1 finer in 58. 36083.55/32783175.
Ex Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/7/1945:239-Judge Thomas L. Gaskill, New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1956 (privately)- Dorothy I. Paschal 1977-Myles Z. Gerson 1/10/1981-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 1/27/1996:237-Thomas D. Reynolds Collection, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/31/2016:170-The Liberty Cap Foundation.

Julius Caesar Morgenthau (1858-1929) founded the firm bearing his name in 1905. Earlier, in 1893, he began his career as a stamp dealer in Chicago. The auction house, located in New York City, became the premier philatelic auction house in the country by the time of his death. In 1978, Morgenthau was posthumously elected to the American Philatelic Society's Hall of Fame. The firm continued to operate after Morgenthau's death, adding numismatic auctions to its philatelic repertoire. Wayte Raymond and James Macallister conducted 53 numismatic sales for J.C. Morgenthau from 1932 until 1945. The series includes the William Festus Morgan sale of June 16, 1932 and the Howard Rounds Newcomb Collection in two parts in 1945. John Adams gives an overall A rating to eight of those sales, with seven sales assigned an A rating for large cents.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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