Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

AU-50 New England Rare Coin Galleries FPL #17, May 1974 $2,500 • unknown • Bowers and Merena 1/1993: 219 not sold.

EF-45 Bowers and Merena 6/1984: 3335 $3,575 • Wade Hinderling • George E. Ewing, Jr. • Eric Streiner • Stack's 1/1993: 1082 $2,860 • Anthony Terranova, Thomas D. Reynolds, and Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM) • Stack's FPL, Summer 1995: 46 $5,750.

EF-45 Sharpness of AU-55 but raw copper showing on obverse and reverse edge dents. Consignment H • Stack's 5/1979: 46 $1,700 • Ellis Robison • Stack's 2/1982: 406 $3,000 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 25 $2,420 • Anthony Terranova.

EF-45 Pine Tree Auction Co. 2/1975: 608 $975.

EF-45 Dr. E. Yale Clarke • Stack's 10/1975: 41 $1,100 • "WS."

EF-45 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 69 $60 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl • B. Max Mehl #112, 4/1949: 2313 $23.50.

Obverse 6. Hair ends in only seven locks, the top lock short and thick, the fourth from the bottom short and faint. Faint shoulder loop. Pole is thinner than on previous obverses, tapering toward the neck. Base of 4, and sometimes also of 1, weak or absent. R T are far apart. Usually identifiable "across the room" by the die crack of state II.

Reverse D. Lowest right leaf pair has leaves of about equal length with their tips unusually close together. Only the edge of inner leaf of the triplet below O(F) is visible. Double punched outer leaf below ED. Six berries. left and seven right, these are larger than on previous reverses, though in the reground die state of number 8 they are again small. Very tall numerator resting on a long fraction bar. UN are closely spaced, the N high and tilted to the left. Bases of TA are close and ENT are repunched.

Die states: I. "Perfect dies." This and later states are normally weak at upper parts of NI. There may be microscopic traces of a crack at the dentil opposite the pole, however, most survivors are in low grades, obscuring this detail.

II. Reverse with very faint central bulging. Faint crack from rim through pole. Later, this crack extends to throat.

III. Bulge develops right of Y, including the entire right field, above the crack.

IV. Crack extends through jaw, above earlobe, hair, and upper edge of cap to the rim.

V. Plain crack from the rim to Y, nose, and cheek. Reverse shows faint bulging, plainest at NT.

Equivalents: Maris 13, "Standless 4." Frossard 9.

Doughty 33. Hays 18. McGirk 4C. Ross 12-K. Chapman 7. Sheldon 23. EAC 7. Encyclopedia 1657.
High Rarity 4.
Remarks: Discovered by Dr. Edward Maris before 1869.

Any state I coin might be confused with a specimen of number 8 struck before the dies were reground. On the latter, RT would be much more closely spaced.

Probably comprised a small part of the 16,000 delivered February 22.

Condition Census:

AU-55 Peter Mougey • William H. Woodin. Thomas L. Elder #43, 9/1910: 7 $52 • E. Gilbert • J. P. Hale Jenkins • Henry Chapman 7/1922: 1503 $196. S. H. Chapman • S. H. Chapman 4/1923: Addenda B $270 • S. H. Chapman • Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 12/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State I. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Chapman. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents (twice) and in Penny Whimsy. Obverse illustrated in Noyes and in Morley.

AU-55 Discovered in 1957 in England by Stack's • C. Douglas Smith, 6/1958 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner, 4/4/1992 • Dr. Allen Bennett. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

VF-35 From England to Rare Coin Company of America • Gordon J. Wrubel • Dr. Robert A. Schuman. • Gordon J. Wrubel, 12/1978 Denis W. Loring, 5/7 /1983 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 37 $6,600 •Dr. Allen Bennett, 4/4/1992 • Eric Streiner • Superior Galleries 10/1992: 63 $3,960 • Anthony Terranova, Thomas D. Reynolds, and Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM) • Rick Fitzgerald, 4/1994 • Al Boka. State V.

VF-35 From France in 1949 to Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1659 $220 • Harold Bareford, 9/13/1985 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 28 $5,225 • George E. Ewing, Jr.

VF-35 With a small planchet clip. Col. E. H. R. Green • B.G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.), 3/24/1943 $18.75. A. Kosoff. Oscar J. Pearl s Numismatic Gallery FPL, 1944: 35 $35 • Edward L. Urban • Robert J. Kissner. Stack's 6/1975: 225 $700 • Tom Morley • Cape Kennedy Medals 12/1975: 9 $2,500 • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Del Bland, 1/4/1985 • Bertram Cohen. Obverse illustrated in the 1879 Frossard Monograph, in Penny Whimsy, and in Morley.