Large Cents 1813 S-292 R2 MS63 Brown PCGS, CAC Approved.

Large Cents
1813 S-292 R2 MS63 Brown PCGS, CAC Approved. Lustrous chocolate brown and steel with lighter reddish steel brown faded down from mint color in protected areas, mostly on the obverse. A frosty, very attractive cent, essentially flawless. The notable marks are a microscopic planchet flake under the left foot of the second 1 in the date, a tiny tick on the jaw over the throat, and a tiny scratch over the left top of the E in AMERICA. E-MDS, Breen state II, with die clashmarks on both sides and light radial die flowlines in the fields. Graded MS60 and CC#2 in the Noyes census, his photo #34165 (Noyes lists only 2 mint state examples of the die variety). Bland says AU55 and tied for CC#4. This cataloger's EAC grade is MS60. The attribution and Great Pacific Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS Gold Shield label. PCGS population 2; none finer. 36511.63/32982051.
Ex Milton A. Holmes, Stack's 10/5/1960:1471-Worthy Coin Co. (Corrado Romano)-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., Abe Kosoff 10/11/1961:379-Gene Reale, Sotheby's 1/15/1998:52-Kenneth Goldman and Stuart Levine, Bowers & Merena 1/11/1999:334-Thomas D. Reynolds Collection, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/31/2016:327-Elmer Guthrie (Great Pacific Collection), Goldbergs 2/16/2020:207-Walter J. Husak Collection.

The proprietor of Worthy Coin Company in Boston since the 1940s, or possibly as early as 1938, Don Corrado Romano was born at Salerno, Italy on January 21, 1903, and died at Hingham, Massachusetts on January 7, 1984. He was known by his middle name, Corrado. Prior to the mid-20th century establishment of Worthy Coin Company, he did business as Romano's Coin Shop.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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