Large Cents 1794 S-59 R3 MS66 Red & Brown PCGS. Highly

Large Cents
1794 S-59 R3 MS66 Red & Brown PCGS. Highly lustrous mint red fading to light bluish steel brown, about 25% of the mellowed mint color remaining. A fantastic gem in every respect! No spots, contact marks, or friction. Satiny mint frost covers even the highest points of the design. A superb, pristine cent. The only flaws, if they can be called that, are some microscopic planchet chips that didn't completely strike out around the date and near the dentils left of the date, all as struck. M-LDS, Heck die state 5, Breen die state V, with a clear die crack arcing through the fraction and adjacent A in AMERICA to the dentils over that C. Tied for finest known honors as MS65 in both census lists with the other "St. Oswald" example, although Noyes calls this one a "Gem" and the other one a slightly less desirable "Choice." This cataloger's EAC grade is MS65+. Certainly, one of the finest 1794 cents of any die variety. This is the Noyes plate coin for the variety, his photo #20825. The attribution and Dan Holmes Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS Gold Shield label. PCGS population 1; none finer. 35640.66/13666801.
Ex William Strickland Collection-Charles Winn-Rowland Winn (First Baron St. Oswald)-Rowland Winn (Second Baron St. Oswald)-Rowland George Winn (Third Baron St. Oswald)-Rowland Denys Guy Winn (Major the Lord St. Oswald)-Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd. (London) 10/13/1964:153-A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd. (London)-Dorothy I. Paschal-Dr. William H. Sheldon 4/19/1972-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992-Eric Streiner-Jay Parrino (The Mint) 4/16/1996-W. M. "Jack" Wadlington 5/2005-Bob Grellman & Chris McCawley 11/7/2005-Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 9/6/2009:95-The Liberty Cap Foundation.

An English industrialist and politician, Rowland Winn, First Baron St. Oswald, was born on February 19, 1820, and died on January 19, 1893. He was the eldest son of Charles Winn of Nostell Priory. He was a member of Parliament from 1868 to 1885, and in that latter year, he received the title of Baron Saint Oswald.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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