1788 Massachusetts Cent. Ryder 10-L (R-2+). 152.7 grains. Choice About Uncirculated. Nice olive green and brown. Obverse surface mostly smooth and hard; reverse striated diagonally down from the upper left to lower right. Minor porosity around the rims. Centers typical, the reverse sharper than the obverse with full CENT legible.
Ex Wayte Raymond's first public auction sale (December 8, 1910, lot 8); Hillyer Ryder, F.C.C. Boyd; John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part V (Stack's, October 2004, lot 136).
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