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1825 1C N-9, R.2, MS64 Brown PCGS. CAC. Our EAC Grade AU55. While its strike is slightly blunt on the high points, this splendid cent displays bold star details. The border is mostly complete, although narrow in places. Both sides offer lovely golden-tan surfaces with splashes of steel-brown toning and delicate sky-blue overtones. A splash of orange mint color appears at ED of UNITED. Variety: The two most plentiful 1825 varieties are N-2 and N-9, the latter incorporating two dies that saw no other use in the Coronet series. This early die state example show no evidence of an obverse crack from the rim to the forehead between stars 3 and 4. Population Data (3/15): PCGS reports 15 in MS64 Brown (two MS64+ Brown) with eight finer, along with two MS64 Red and Brown. Heritage Commentary: When Stack's offered this coin in 1997, they described it as a proof, apparently on the strength of its inclusion in Walter Breen's Proof Encyclopedia. In its 1983 appearance which Stack's overlooked, Kagin's graded this piece AU55. Three decades earlier, New Netherlands described this cent as a "semi-proof" in 1953, and four decades before that, S.H. Chapman described it as "Uncirculated with proof surface" in 1913. Denis Loring includes four "proofs" in his census, although he has not personally examined any of them and notes "probably none are genuine proofs." Neither PCGS nor NGC has certified a proof of this date. Provenance: Sargent Collection (S.H. Chapman, 6/1913), lot 568; Hillyer Ryder Collection (New Netherlands, 9/1953), lot 859; R. Gallo; Abe Kosoff; Santa Monica Collection (Kagin's, 10/1983), lot 1104; Stack's (5/1997), lot 387.