1794 S-41 R3 PCGS graded AU50. Very attractive frosty medium steel and chocolate brown with lighter brown toning covering the protected areas on the reverse. No hint of corrosion or verdigris and only microscopic contact marks. The best identifying marks are a tiny pinprick at the leaf point under the C in AMERICA and a thin nick or planchet chip through the right top of the T in CENT. Nicely struck E-MDS, Breen state III, with a radial crack through the D in UNITED to the top of the C in CENT but no trace of the later crack down through AT in STATES. The reverse is rotated 20 to 25 degrees CCW relative to the normal head-to-foot die orientation. Graded VF35 net VF30 and tied for CC#6 honors in the Noyes census, his photo #20134. Bland says VF35 and tied for CC#4. Both census lists show only a single example of this variety that grades above EF40, and that coin is impounded in the ANS Collection. Our grade is VF35. The attribution and Reynolds provenance are shown on the PCGS label. PCGS population 1; 3 finer: 1 in 50, 2 in 55. PCGS #35588. <DOTLEADER> Estimated Value $8,000 - UP <I><BR>Ex Hathaway & Bowers FPLs 1970-1971-John W. Adams 1/1975-Denis Loring 5/7/1983-Jack H. Robinson, Superior 1/29/1989:67-John Sype 4/1991-James H. Goudge-Walter Husak-Fred Borcherdt 5/2013-Thomas D. Reynolds Collection, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/31/2016:25-Dr. Mark D. Cadden Collection (includes the Husak and Reynolds collection envelopes).</I>
