Owner Comments:
N-6
R1+
CC
Condition Census 1833 Newcomb-6
Ex Atwater-Eliasberg
1833 Matron Head Cent. Noyes Die State B/C. MS-65 BN (PCGS). CAC.
A superb cent with extraordinary cartwheel luster that draws the eye. The obverse is deep brown with subtle mottled violet and olive, accented by light steel.
The reverse is vivid reddish violet at the center and changes to light olive brown with steel and pale blue highlights.
Beautifully struck with only the most trivial marks seen under magnification. Late state with fading of the dentils,
though this is more pronounced on the reverse where about a third of them are gone. Ranked in the Noyes Census as the lone CC#6,
and just a bit of original red away from being quite a bit higher in the listing as the surfaces are very choice indeed.
A coin that spent time in two of the greatest collections of the 20th century, and, here, in one of the greatest collections of large cents ever formed.
EAC:MS63
Noyes:36178
PCGS# 37033. NGC ID: 225P.
Pedigree: Ex William Cutler Atwater, B. Max Mehl, June 1946:79; Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., Bowers and Merena, May1996:572; Twin Leaf Collection Stacks Bowers 7/2015 Lot 2234.
EAC grade MS 63