1853 Braided Hair Cent. N-2. Rarity-3. Grellman State-b. MS-64BN (PCGS).,Beautiful medium chocolate brown with light woodgrain striations and gentle accents of blue-green steel. A couple of microscopic nicks and some natural voids in the central reverse fields as often seen, this being from die debris and as made. The second of four die states described by Grellman, and an early one with relatively smooth fields. <br />EAC:MS60<br />,PCGS# 405979.,,From the Twin Leaf Collection of United States Large Cents, Part IV. Earlier from W.E. Johnson; Robinson S. Brown, Jr., Superior, June 2002:1134.