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  • raysrays Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 9, 2019 9:36PM

    I have only seen two other chain cents with traces of mint red. Most recently, Lot 2001 ("liquid Fire") from Walter Husak's sale at heritage 2008 described as follows:

    1793 Chain 1C AMERICA MS60 Details, Light Surface Damage, ANACS. S-2, B-2, High R.4. Bland MS61; CC-1. Noyes AU50; tied for CC-6. Photo #35070. Our EAC Grade AU55.

    Equivalents. Crosby-Levick 1B; Frossard 1, second reverse; Proskey 2; Doughty 2; Crosby 1-C; McGirk 1-B; EAC 2; Encyclopedia 1633; PCGS #1341.

    Variety. Widest date of all Chain cents. Full legend, AMERICA. The obverse appears on S-1 and S-2. The reverse appears on S-2, S-3, S-4, and NC-1. The obverse die was resurfaced to remove clash marks, also diminishing the appearance of the die bulge that appeared during striking of the earlier S-1 coins.

    Surfaces. A remarkable Chain cent with lustrous medium olive color and considerable red on exceptional surfaces. The slightest smoothing of the surfaces are mentioned by ANACS. There is no trace of wear, but a blunt strike is described by Del Bland in his Condition Census, evident on the hair around the ear and on letters of the legend. According to the New Netherlands cataloger, one of America's greatest collectors described the appearance as "liquid fire" when he first saw this coin.

    The other was in 1995 when Jay Parrino ("The Mint") brought the Garret specimen to Long Beach (with a bunch of other Naftzger large cents, including the Windsor 1793 wreath cent (PCGS MS-68 RED), now in a PCGS MS65RB holder:

  • specialistspecialist Posts: 956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The coin is a real GEM. Its easily worth $1 million.

  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭

    I was able to view the S-1 at lot viewing on Tuesday. Absolutely wonderful coin with Full cartwheel luster and great color, traces of mint red on the reverse. I think it may approach 2 Million.

    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
  • CurrinCurrin Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do we know who won this coin?

    My 20th Century Type Set, With Type Variations---started : 9/22/1997 ---- completed : 1/7/2004

    My 20th Century Gold Major Design Type Set ---started : 11/17/1997 ---- completed : 1/21/2004
  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    (10 month old thread warning).
    Sold for $1.5 m.

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,297 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gorgeous coin!

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.

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