Walter Breen
American Numismatic Society has one, ex Baldwin, Charles E. Clapp, Sr. With the edge blundered ONE HUNDRED A DOLLAR.
Thomas S. Collier wrote a sonnet about the variety ON THE STAR-CIRCLED CENT OF 1794
The years have come and gone since you were made,
Some great with sorrows, some with purpose strong,
All crowned with deeds that make the voice of song;
Foes against the Nation have stood arrayed,
With red light shining from each ready blade,
But through each struggle, though the fight was long,
Triumphant towered the right, low sank the wrong,
While kingly sway sank cowering in dark shade.
Were those great souls who dared a tyrant's worth
The Premonition of what was to be?
A record made by high, unerring fates?
And do your stars point out the Nation's path,
When it shall grandly sweep from sea to sea,
An equal constellation of fair States?
Condition Census:
EF-40 From a Spink & Sons, Ltd. (London) FPL, 1972 to a New York City collector • Stack's 9/1972: 662 $15,000 • John W Adams• Bowers and Ruddy Galleries FPL, 1982: 43 $50,000 • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries RCR #46, December 1982.$50,000 • Dr. Boyd E. Hayward, 11/1985 • Bowers and Merena Galleries • Bowers and Merena 4/1986: 945 $45,100• Bowers and Merena Galleries • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Strainer • Jay Parrino (The Mint) • Bowers and Merena Galleries 3/10/1995 • Walter Husak. Smith 40A, state A. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.
VF-30 With many small planchet defects, mostly on the obverse. Sharpness of EF-45 but edge dents. Discovered in 1880 in his coin stock and retained in the Ed. Frossard Collection • Ed. Prossard #37, 10/1884: 856 • T. Harrison Garrett • Robert Garrett, 1919 • John Work Garrett • Johns Hopkins University • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries 11/1979: 67 $14,000 • Denis W. Loring, 12/1985 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 66 $33,000 • David Bloom, 2/1989 • Kenneth M. Goldman, 2/1989 • Michael Kramer, 5/1997 • Denis W. Loring. Smith 25C, state A or B.
VF-25 Purchased prior to 1893 by Edward Miller • William Hesslein 4/1916: 305 $132.55 • Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp • ANS. Smith 25B, state A or B. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents.
VF-25 Allison W. Jackman • Henry Chapman 7/1919: 190 $225 • Henry Co Hines, 1945 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Jay Parrino (The Mint), 6/1995 • Michael "Mickey" Arconti. Smith 25A, state A or B. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Chapman. Reverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy.
VF-20 Samuel A. Bispham • S. H. & H. Chapman 2/1880: 162 $4.25 • John W. Haseltine Collection • John W. Haseltine 3/1881: 771 $21 • C. T. Whitman • S. H. & H. Chapman 8/1893: 826 $50 • Dr. Thomas Hall, 9/7/1909 • Virgil M. Brand • New Netherlands Coin Co. #34, 10/1951: 579 $225 • Willard C. Blaisdell, 9/1974 • Del Bland, 1/ 2/1985 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 84 $33,000 • Douglas F. Bird • David Henderson. State II, early. Smith 20A, state B.
F-15 Sharpness of VF-25 but edge dents. Empire Coin Co. FPL #10, 5-6/1960 $475 • Dorothy Paschal, 3/1978 • Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr. • Jack H. Beymer • Donald H. Petersen • Superior Galleries 2/1992: 703 $27,500 • Peter Setian - Dr. Robert J. Bye • Stack's 5/1997: 380 $28,600 • Adam Crum (Classic Gold Exchange) • unknown • Superior Stamp & Coin 9/1997: 37 A $50,050. Smith 15B, state A or B.
F-15 Sharpness of VF-30 but some pitting behind the hair and a reverse nick. Joseph Armstrong Temple • Geoffrey Charlton Adams #19, 4/1905: 227 $25 • Geoffrey Charlton Adams • Henry C. Miller • Thomas L. Elder 4/1917: 660 $92.50 • Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 29 $150 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl, 4/1947 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 368 $4,000 • John W. Adams • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries FPLs, 1974-75 $9,750 • Ellis Robison. Stack's 2/1982: 408 $20,000 • Alex Acevido • Robert Vlack • Daniel W. Holmes, Jr. Smith 15A, state A. Reverse illustrated in Elder-Gilbert. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Morley.
F-12 Sharpness of VF-20 but a dent opposite the neck and small handling marks. Sent unattributed for grading to ANACS (discovered by them to be S-48) by James Evans • Auction '90 (David W. Akers): 1508 $19,800 • Julian Leidman •. Bowers and Merena Galleries FPLs, 1990-91 $34,900 • Dr. John A. VanArsdall • Bowers and Merena 1/1993: 222 not sold • Dr. John A. VanArsdall. Not in Smith, state B.
F-12 Sharpness of VF-30 but rough surfaces. Richard B. Winsor • S. H. & H. Chapman 12/1895: 828 $31 • Chas. Steigerwalt, 1906 • Charles G. Zug • Lyman H. Low 3/ 1907: 8 $15 • Virgil M. Brand • B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.) • Oscar J. Pearl • Numismatic Gallery FPL, 1944: 23 $135 • Will W. Neil • B. Max Mehl #110, 6/1947: 1818 $82.50 • Christian M. Petersen. Hollinbeck Coin Co. • Hollinbeck Coin Co. #184, 8/1954: 12 not sold • Hollinbeck Coin Co., 9/1/1956 • Mrs. R. Henry Norweb • Bowers and Merena 11/1988: 2715 $13,200 • J. J. Teaparty • Bowers and Merena Galleries • George E. Ewing, Jr. • Daniel Trollan. Smith 10B, State A or B.
VG-10 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 24 $52 • Milton A. Holmes • Stack's 10/1960: 1377 $320 • Frank H. Masters, Jr. • Rare Coin Company of America 5/1971: 64 $1,600 • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries, 5/15/1971 • John W. Adams. Dr. Edward R. Bush, 9/1978 • Myles Z. Gerson. Dr. Dane B. Nielsen. Dr. Philip W. Ralls, 5/1983 • Jack H. Robinson. Smith 10A, state D. Reverse illustrated in Morley.
VG-10 Sharpness of VF-20 but surfaces not smooth. Marsh collection • Joel Perlin (H. S. Perlin Co.), 8/22/ 1985 at the ANA convention • Ronald Guth - Jack Borckardt (The Collector's Cabinet), 10/1985 • John B. MacDonald, 8/1988 • Denis W. Loring, 5/1997 • Robert C. Clark. Smith 10D, state A or B.
VG-8 Sharpness of F-15 but finely porous and burnished. Bowers and Ruddy Galleries, 6/1972 • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen,3/1979 • Denis W. Loring, 4/1979 • George E. Ewing, Jr., 8/1979 • Denis W. Loring, 8/1979 • Manchester Coin Gallery • Robert Russano • Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd. 10/1985: 32 $6,250 • Joel Spingarn • Butler "Bim" Gander. Smith 10C, state A or B.
VG-8 Sharpness of F-12 but dented over ATE and slightly bent. Ray Chatham, 6/1955 • C. Douglas Smith, 1965 • Alfred Bonard, 1965 • Henry J. Berube (New England Coin Co.), 1/28/1966 • Philip Van Cleave • Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #340, 1/1986: 5052 $8,800 • Denis W. Loring, 8/25/1988 • Frank H. Stillinger. Smith 8E, state A or B.