1853 Braided Hair Cent. N-33. Rarity-2. Grellman State-a. MS-63 BN (PCGS).Uniform light steel brown and strikingly attractive. One hairline across the cheek and into the left field, but little worthy of mention otherwise. Satiny and highly lustrous though the early die state fields have a trace of prooflike character. The small dash left of the base of 1 is very sharp on this piece, and pretty clearly part of an errant numeral 1, likely a test punch in the rim.From Doug Bird, February 1987; J.R. Frankenfield, Superior, February 2001, lot 1805; our sale of the Twin Leaf Collection, Part IV, November 2017, lot 1093.
