Owner Comments:
PCGS graded MS 66 RB, EAC MS65
Variety: N-6, LDS
Ex: Pearl, Downing, Sloss, Naftzger
This coin is the finest 1836 N-6 cent. The variety is easily recognized due to the rim cud between stars 7 & 8. It is a great old cent. It has nice color and luster on the obverse, and the reverse is notably better in both characteristics. Finding a post-strike flaw is a difficult task!
I bought this coin in February 2009 (Super Bowl Sunday) in the Goldbergs' sale of the Ted Naftzger collection. I had in mind to upgrade a MS63BN N-6 in my collection. Of the two 66RB examples on which I was prepared to bid, the first (an EDS N-3 without the cud at star 6) sold for more than my entire budget for the auction. A 66BN N-3 also sold for more than I was willing to pay. That left this coin, which I was very happy to obtain for less than 5/8 of my preset maximum.
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From the Goldberg's catalog:
Gobrecht Head. Choice lustrous light olive brown and bluish steel with 10% of the obverse covered with mint color and nearly a third of the reverse showing bright original mint red. The surfaces are satiny and nearly flawless, a nick-like planchet chip on the tip of the chin being the only defect. A choice, very attractive cent. Sharply struck LDS with a cud break hanging down from the dentils over star 8 and the final die crack through the F in OF clear. Called MS65 choice and CC#1 in the Noyes census, his photo #21823. Bland says MS65 and CC#1 as well. Our grade is MS65.
Photo credit: Electric Peak Collection