Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Condition Census:

VF-30 Harlan P. Smith • S. H. & H. Chapman 5/1906: 1071 $13 • S. H. & H. Chapman • Henry C. Hines, 1944 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • George E. Ewing, Jr., 12/22/1994 • Daniel W. Holmes, Jr. State I. Obverse illustrated in Morley. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes. The discovery coin for the subvariety. George H. Clapp offered Henry C. Hines "any price under four figures" for this coin in 1941, but the offer was refused.

VF-25 An eastern institution • David M. Bullowa 6/1953: 972 $35 • M. L. Kaplan • Robert J, Kissner • Stack's 6/1975: 216 $2,700 • William R. T. Smith • Dr. Edward R. Bush • Del Bland. State I.

VF-20 Carl Wurtzbach • Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 27 $250 • Dorothy Paschal, 5/1975 • Denis W. Loring, 5/7/1983 • Jack H. Robinson. Douglas F. Bird

• Gary Ruttenberg • M & G Auctions 8/1996: 72 $12,100

• Wes A. Rasmussen.

VF-20 An eastern consignment • Superior Galleries 2/1976: 1356 $1,100 • Denis W. Loring, 3/1976 • Dr. Robert A. Schuman • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Kenneth D. Pines • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Dr. C. R. Chambers • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 26 $13,200 • Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., 12/22/1994 • Darwin B. Palmer, Jr. State I. 

VF-20 Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp • ANS.

F-12 From England • George K. Pretsch • C. Douglas Smith. Del Bland • William R. T. Smith • Dr. Edward R. Bush. Dr. Allen D. Roses.

F-12 Brig. Gen. C. MCC. Reeve • Thomas L. Elder 11/ 1937: 676 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William H. Sheldon • C. Douglas Smith, 1965 • Alfred Bonard • 1968 ANA (A. Kosoff & Numismatic Enterprises): 1714 $315.

VG-10 Sharpness of VF-25 but uniformly porous. Kenneth Draudt, 1961 • C. F. Gordon, Jr., 1/1979 • Del Bland • George E. Ewing, Jr., 5/1979 • Denis W. Loring, 8/1979. Jackson C. Storm, 8/1/1984 • Robert E. Matthews • Superior Galleries 5/1989: 143 $2,310.

VG-10 Sharpness of VF-30 but corrosion; cleaned and re-colored. 1957 ANA (Federal Coin Exchange): 768 $45 • Dr. Charles L. Ruby- 12/1972 • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. • Superior Galleries 2/1974: 346 $525 • Robert Mathey • Superior Stamp & Coin Co., privately • Jack H. Beymer, 1/1976 • Albert Ault • Alfred K. Nippert, Jr.

VG-8 W. E. Johnson, 1958 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 341 $700 • Dr. Edward R. Bush, 3/29/1976 • Philip Van Cleave • Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #340, 1/1986: 5022 $880 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 26 $2,420 • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM) • Walter Husak.

VG-8 Oscar J. Pearl • Numismatic Gallery FPL, 1944: 16 $20 • Sol Kaplan • A. Kosoff 5/1955: 1349 $85 • Sol Kaplan • Del Bland, 8/2/1971 • C. Douglas Smith • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen, 3/1979 • Del Bland • Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr., 6/1981 • G. Lee Kuntz • Superior Galleries 10/1991: 24 $1,705 • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM).

VG-8 French's, privately • Albert Solomon • A-Mark Coin Co., 1973 Jack Collins, 1973. Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 26 $935 • Robinson, Victor-McCawley (RVM) • Dennis Mendelson • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Jack H. Beymer. State I.

VG-8 Purchased unattributed on 1/12/1985 from Wayne Rattray (W & B Coin) by Del Bland • Jack H. Beymer. Richard C. Dempsey.

Obverse 2.

Reverse B.

Edge: II. Point and stem of leaf after DOLLAR point up. See illustration on page 95.

Die states: I. May exist as described for 3a.

II. Faint die failure in the left obverse field, below the cap, left of the bulge.

Equivalents: Maris 2, "Double Chin." Frossard 2.1. Doughty 19. Hays 2. McGirk 8B. Ross 2-A. Chapman 2. Sheldon 19b. EAC 3b. Encyclopedia 1653.

High Rarity 4.

Remarks: Usually on cruder, darker planchets than the new Taylor & Bailey blanks used for 2b. Discovered by Dr. Edward Maris before 1869.

Dan Trollan reported an example in the David Palmer collection with edge blundered ONE HUNDREDA DOLLAR. (Letter to Mark Borckardt, Apri128, 1997.)