Boldly lustrous steel surfaces display a faint blue-green tint and deep red undertones remaining on both sides. Handling marks of any kind are a challenge to find, which is ideal for the grade assigned. Just one tiny mark crosses the tip of the wreath stem while another appears on the E of ONE. Neither is distracting in the least and the eye appeal is truly superb.The die states seen here are very similar to those in the previous lot, with just slight advancement, Noyes State-C-D(late)/C. On this piece, the crack that crosses the portrait has small pieces of metal out at Libertys temple and upper neck. This is the most obvious evidence of the later state, though the fields are slightly more flowlined and weakness in the dentils is a bit more pronounced. On the reverse, a small rim break has formed at 6:00, but the larger obverse rim cuds that appear in later states have yet to form.This piece is the only example graded MS-67 by PCGS and it is ranked as the lone finest example of the variety in the Noyes Condition Census.
