1818 Matron Head Cent. N-5. Rarity-3. Choice About Uncirculated. A choice and well pedigreed example of this scarcer variety. Frosty light olive-brown surfaces with only trivial marks and a few faint hairlines. Subtle cartwheel luster across both sides. A desirable piece. Listed as EF-45 and CC 7/9 in Noyes 1991 reference. PCGS# 36613. From the John McBride Collection. Earlier ex Howard R. Newcomb; J.C. Morgenthau & Co.s sale of the Howard R. Newcomb Collection, May 1945, lot 517; our (Stacks) sale of the Floyd T. Starr Collection, June 1984, lot 104; Fred Borcherdt; Superiors sale of the Bob Matthews Collection, May 1989, lot 568; Tom Reynolds, 1990; Frank McElwain; David Johnson, 2019 EAC Convention bourse.<p>
