Deep steel and rich chocolate surfaces offer faint undertones of faded violet. Remnants of deep orange and tan cling to the recesses. Details are sharp and the surfaces are satiny with strong luster, creating a very pleasing aesthetic appeal. One small lint mark in the obverse field between star 1 and the chin is the best identifier of this choice specimen that once graced the collection of Howard Newcomb.Struck from the dies in their later states, equivalent to Grellman Die State-b, this cent shows light flowlines in the fields. The parallel die lines behind ONE CENT are gone in this state. The central details are sharp and well struck, and the star centers and even rims are complete.Standing as one of the finest graded by PCGS and comfortably in the Condition Census for the variety, this coin has been held in only four collections since before the second World War. Each of them was assembled by a connoisseur who appreciated fine quality, perhaps above all else.
