This is an intensely lustrous cent, with bold cartwheels on both sides. The color is superb, showing deep faded red broken only by light steel patina on the highest points. The pattern of a light old fingerprint is noted in the toning at the central reverse. There are no surface works worth mentioning. Some light roughness near the right end of the date is from die debris and is as made.Nicely struck and very attractive, the degree of luster partly due to the later states of the dies, which have imparted light flowlines in the fields. The dentils are soft, but all are delineated. This is Grellmans Die State-c.Though high grade examples of this date are plentiful, the grading service population data can be very deceiving. In fact, this is one of the finest known examples of the die variety. Ranked as tied with one other for CC#1 in the Noyes Census, while Bob Grellman called it CC#1 in the Naftzger catalog.
