Light steel brown on the obverse displays traces of olive in the fields above the portrait. The reverse is rich chocolate with faint steel overtones. On both sides traces of mint red remain in the tighter recesses and bold cartwheel luster accentuates the delightful patina. Some shallow marks around ONE CENT are the only ones worthy of mention, while a few tiny patina spots are useful for plate matching.Struck from the later states of the dies corresponding to Noyes State-C/D. The obverse is cracked through the first six stars and the date, while the reverse is cracked through nearly the entirety of the legend. Both sides exhibit flowlines in the fields. On the reverse this is heavy enough at the periphery to have distorted the die and weakened the peripheral details.Though PCGS has graded a few finer for the date and type, this is the finest one graded with the Newcomb-14 attribution on the grading holder. It is tied for CC#5 with a few other pieces in the Noyes Census.
