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

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128R

4

ex Rawls should read ex Kern:265, Rawls,

128R

b-6

Ullmer:415 ($9,000; rev. flan chip about 5:00) is an original, with obv. of 1864-66, according to Tom DeLorey.

129L

7-8

delete ref. to Ullmer:415. Add: See ill. at Garrett:422.

130R

12

*B-2 should read B-2

130R

5c

B-2: Tom DeLorey reports one with repunched 18, probably earliest die state.

130R

10c

B-1 = Ahwash 2

131L

1-3

Early state: repunching on base of 1, tops of 66, plainest on final 6; rev. of 1st var. (Tom DeLorey)

131R

b-14

nonpr aken should read nonproofs taken

131R

b-13

as re as should read as rare as

132R

5cn

This and next paragraph should read: Five Cents Nickel. Type of 1866, with rays. Mintage unknown; 12 to 15 survive, R.W. Julian (personal communication) says the Coiner refused to make proofs with rays; .these are therefore clandestine issues. One variety, two batches' representing two limited strikings. State I: Leaf below RU detached but not hollow; polish in leaves at 2:45; unpolished areas at bases of white stripes; scattered vertical striae at rim r. of date; rev. rays below T(ES) hollow; dentils at 2:30-5:00 thin and well separated. Possibly 5 to 7 survive.

State II: Repolished. Outer leaf below U now hollow; rev. rays below T(ES) more obviously attenuated, as are those at IC; dentils at r. still weaker. Borders are wider at left obverse than at right. (Rest as in original text.)

133L

3c

B-3 has same rev. as B-2.

133L

10c

B-1 = Ahwash 3. Proofs also known from Ahwash 1 dies (defect on middle of upright of F), and from the A-1 obv. with an unlisted rusty rev., rust marks most noticeable near (ON)E.

133R

25c

Add: B-3. Obv. B-1, rev. normal, unlike B-1 or B-2.

136L

10c

B-1 = Ahwash 5; B-2 = Ahwash 4. Add: B-3. High date slants down to r. No rust pit at B, no polish at white stripes; horizontal die file marks at pole below hand. Rev. Die polish below GO, scroll otherwise normal; plain striae at OE less plain at much of legend.

138L

3c

1869/68. Add: Part of differently shaped 6 at 6; base of 8 in lower space of 9, not matching curve. Pine Tree
11/75:57, 1977 ANA:711.

138L

10c

This is Ahwash 3; the die file marks fade. Proofs also known of Ahwash 4.

138L

25c

Many have a horizontal die file mark from leaf pointing to left side of 2 below middle.

141L

5c

2nd var. shows obv. rust on device and field.

141L

10c

These are not in Ahwash; A-1 and A-2 also reported.

141L

25c

As in other denominations, varieties with 71 touching or almost touching came first, those from new logotypes with 71 apart later (mostly rarer).

142L

b-2

apart should read free

145L

3c

Add: Earliest die state shows repunching on base of 1 (1982 ANA:238, others); this later fades, before the rust develops.

145R

10c

NA This is Ahwash 1; proofs also reported of A-2, pendant left of center of top of 7.

145R

10c

Arrows Ahwash 6: nearly vertical striae above STATES, others slant down to r. at top rev.; left ribbon end touches wreath

148L

5

The Government of India no longer has this set. Delete references to it at other denominations.

149L

8

should read: eagle, and eagle. Date left, near border and bust. Rev. Lower wing feathers r. of shield separated, thin.

149R

10c

Not in Ahwash, Second var.: bases of 74 lightly repunched, striae from them to dentils; no clash marks at (I)M E. 1982 ANA:1968.

149R

28

during the y . should read during the year.

149R

b-19

Die cut in dentils near 10th star. One dentil weak below left angle of 4. Rust pit on drapery below breast, horizontally in line with 3rd star.

152L

25c

Tom DeLorey reports seeing Type I coins with rev. of 1872-3 (die gouge left of shield).

153R

$3

6) after KS 1/67:720 insert Kreisberg MBS 6/29/70:1654, 11/30170:166, ... 7) add: Auction 81:418, $125,000. 9) Bell I, Eliasberg, H.R. Lee:1192 (ill.) 10) H. Chapman ca. 1908, A.F. Holden, Norweb:721. 11) Carter:610, $121,000, Auction 85:936, $99,000.

153R

b-3

1) C.S. Wilcox, Clapp, Eliasberg:301, $110,000. 2) Wolfson:303, 1968 ANA: 1540. (Most often ills. do not permit clear distinction between originals and restrikes.)

154L

$5

(On nonproofs, left base of 1 slightly left of center.) 6) Mumford, Clapp, Eliasberg:536, $60,500. 10) Farouk:256, Kosoff, Bareford:189.

154L

$10

5) Parmelee, Woodin, Boyd, WGC, Belt "Memorable":573, Farouk, Kosoff, Norweb:2206. 6) Clapp, Eliasberg:748, $104,500, Hugh Sconyers.

154L

b-11

See enlarged ill. in Ency p.555.

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