Bold blue-green iridescence accents deep steel brown surfaces. Quite uniform in appearance aside from a nuance of golden olive on the reverse, the surfaces are satiny and highly lustrous on both sides. No marks are worthy of mention aside from a small one on the bust point; the reverse is essentially pristine.Though the dies exhibit evidence of wear such as flowlines at the dentil tips in this die state, Grellmans State-d, lapping has left the fields mostly smooth. The difference in appearance between the early and late state coins is stark enough that Howard Newcomb assigned them different numbers. This state, formerly his N-13, was identified as the late state of the N-4 pairing and delisted.This superb coin is desirable both for its technical quality and for its distinctive "greenie" patina. Though the original source is unidentified, our 1984 Floyd Starr catalog notes "Newcomb said that this is one of the most beautiful cents I have ever seen on 9/30/36." The first owner of record, T. Bishop Disney, was a collector from Cincinnati, many of whose best cents ended up in the Mougey collection.
