Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of United States and Colonial Proof Coins 1722-1989

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77R

$5

3) ... Farouk:250, Kosoff.

77R

$10

6) Vinchon, Paris, 1977, to a combine 6) Vinchon, Paris, 1977, to a combine Malone. Date below center, left base of 1 above center of dentil; all stripes ex-tend up 3 to 6 lines into azure.

78L

8

Insert 3) before N.Y. state pvt. coll.; delete that phrase from caption.

79R

10c

Not in Ahwash.

79L

Cent

N-1. Add (1) H. Kritzman-D.W. Loring- R.E. Naftzger. (2) Stack's-D.W. Loring.

80R

1/2c

4) ex Morgenthau 352:869 (9/35)

81L

10c

Not in Ahwash.

81L

50c

4) NERCA's Amato sale 7/78. Dash below space between 18; 5 unusually close to rim. Rev. Many horizontal dashes in white stripes.

81R

$2%

4) B & R Paul D. Williams: 1815. Rim indentation below 1/2.

81R

$5

4) Paul D. Williams:18161 later NERCG spring 1980, Ivy. Rev. Field flyspecks.

81R

$10

4) Paul D. Williams: 1817. Hairlined.

81R

$10

Ill. transposed with 1843 $10 p.77,

81R

Complete proof sets. 3) Paul D. Complete proof sets. 3) Paul D. vault in England for over a century."

82R

10c

Ahwash 2.

83L

1

8) Garrett.

83L

25c

Add: new var. Low date, shield point
above left edge of 8, left base of 1above center of dentil. Rev. Stripes ex-tend up into azure, but no die file
tend up into azure, but no die file

83L

50c

2nd var.: None of marks of 1st; left base of 1 above r. edge, shield point about over inner left curve of 8. Rev. Spur down from feather end left of shield, another from top of leg at junction with wing r. of shield; middle line of red stripe 1, all 3 lines of stripe 2 into azure; curving lines slant down
to left in white stripes. Stack type set.

83R

$2 1/2

should read 3) Wetmore, Jenks:5810, Clapp, Eliasberg. 4) Seen by Wayte Raymond. This or 3) probably ex Murdoch:783

84L

$5

3) probably ex Murdoch:757,

84R

Cent

N-25. 2) J.B. Wilson:1107, Beckwith:l07 ... TJC:340

84R

Cent

B-41. 3) Later to Kagin 250 (4):349 (2/22/65); d. 1977 ANA:439, slightly impaired.

84R

5c

New var. Date overlaps base, 1 plainly repunched (all serifs), defects at * 5-6, 10-11 only. Garrett:256.

85R

10c

Ahwash 2A.

85L

26

3) Randall:400 (1885), T.H. Garrett, Garrett:210 [3/76], 1977 ANA:1512.

85L

Sil$

WGC:138, Kern:818

85L

b-6

mint front should read mint frost

86R

10c

Not in Ahwash

87L

33

imparied should read impaired

88L

$5

One other seen . . . out of sight should read 2) Farouk:251. Probably the coin Wayte Raymond had seen.

88R

½ c

gold dollars should read quarter eagles. Delete the phrase "for a fantastic $22". See pedigree list in Breen [1984], pp.427-8.

89R

15

least proof should read least rare proof

89L

Cent

N-l. All are really N-30, die lines above UNI. Cf. Auction '89:1543.

90L

10c

Neither var. in Ahwash.

90R

10c

Not in Ahwash.

92L

25c

Thin numerals, open 5; 2 tiny spines from back of hand at scroll. Complete knife-rims ... 3) Leavitt 9/5/1879,T.H. Garrett, J.W. Garrett. 4) Europe, Ed Hipps.

92R

*B-3

7) ... J.C. Burnheimer:872 (Para. 5/76) Silver-minor sets
. . . 4) Col. Charles H. Cummings (Meredith 1 NH), Hesslein 6/14-16/23. Cf. Num 6/23, pp.270-1

92R

Gold proof sets. This one may be in Bibliotheque Nationale.

93R

Cent

"B-23:' All are N-8. Nos. (3), (4), (5) are not proof.

93L

3c

Replace Cf. also by 5) Maris:136 (1886), Garrett: 1549.

93L

Sil$

Cf. also W.J. Jenks:131 (Woodward 6/25-6/1883); Morgenthau 404:417 (7/39), "original:'

93R

24

would to have to should read would have to

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