Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Condition Census:

EF-45 Elmer S. Sears • Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 12/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS • Dr. William H. Sheldon. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

EF-40 With a planchet defect left of the date. Ralph R. Barker • S. H. &; H. Chapman 7/1904: 977 $19 • Henry C. Miller • Thomas L. Elder 4/1917: 710 $72 • The United States Coin Co. • Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau &; Co. #458, 2/1945: 73 $120 • F. C. C. Boyd • Homer K. Downing, 1948 • Dr. William H. Sheldon. Dorothy Paschal s John W. Adams • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries FPL, 1982: 48 $7,000 • Denis W. Loring, 5/7/ 1983 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 93 $35,200 • Daniel W. Holmes, Jr. State 1. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Chapman.

VF-25 E. Gilbert • Thomas L. Elder #44, 10/1910: 58 $61 • H. O. Granberg • William H. Woodin • The United States Coin Co. 5/1915: 146 $85 • Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 85 $150 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl, 1944 • Dr. William H. Sheldon • ANS. Obverse and reverse illustrated in ElderGilbert. Obverse illustrated in Morley.

F-15 Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp, 3/ 31/1949 • Carnegie Institute.

F-12 Sharpness of EF-40 but pitted, porous, and dark. Consignor with initial "M" • S. H. Chapman • S. H. Chapman 6/1913: 467 $30 • Dr. George P. French, privately •J. P. Hale Jenkins • Henry Chapman 7/1922: 1568 $26 • George H. Clapp • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #388, 3/ 1938: 426 $70 • Howard R. Newcomb, privately • Dr. Charles L. Ruby, 12/1972 • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. • Superior Galleries 2/1974: 382 $1,950 • Dr. Edward R. Bush, 12/1977 • Denis W. Loring, 8/1982 • Tom Morley, 9/12/1991 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 76 $5,060 • Steven K. Ellsworth. Obverse and reverse illustrated in the 1914 ANS Exhibition Catalogue. Obverse illustrated in Morley.

F-12 Sharpness of VF-20 but with edge dent and finely porous. Waldo C. Newcomer • B. Max Mehl, privately • Carl Wurtzbach • Barney Bluestone #100, 2/1948: 443 $77.50 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal • Robert J. Kissner • Stack's 6/1975: 251 $460 • William R. T. Smith, 12/1976 • Denis W. Loring, 12/1977 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 71 $5,060 • Roger S. Cohen, Jr. • Superior Galleries 2/1992: 710 $7,150 • Dr. Allen Bennett, 4/4/1992 • Eric Streiner - Tom Morley • Superior Auction Galleries 1/1994: 785 $4,620 • Thomas D. Reynolds and Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM). State 1. Obverse illustrated in Morley.

F-12 Sharpness of VF-25 but burnished. Charles J. Dupont. Stack's 9/1954: 77 $130 • Willard C. Blaisdell • John W. Adams • Dorothy Paschal • Thomas P. Wolf. Obverse illustrated in Morley.

VG-10 Sharpness of F-15 but edge dents. M. A. Brown • S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1897: 760 $41 • Benjamin H. Collins.W. W. Hays, 1900 • Chas. Steigerwalt, 1906 • Charles G.Zug • Lyman H. Low 3/1907: 58 $4.25 • Howard R.Newcomb • Foster Lardner • B. Max Mehl #81,6/1930: 54 $11 • Will W. Neil • B. Max Mehl #110, 6/ 1947: 1862 $52.50 • Christian M. Petersen • Hollinbeck Coin Co. • Hollinbeck Coin Co. #184, 8/1954: 16 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William H. Sheldon • C. Douglas Smith, 1965 • Alfred Bonard • Henry J. Berube (New England Coin Co.), 1/28/1966 • Philip Van Cleave • Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #340, 1/1986: 5057 $5,225 • Martin Paul (The Rarities Group) • George E. Ewing, Jr. The discovery coin for the variety, first announced in the M. A. Brown sale.

VG-10 Sharpness of VF-20 but some fine obverse pitting. From an accumulation of coins in 1986, via DownieLepczyk Auctions, Ltd., privately 7/28/1986 • Dr. Bruce Reinoehl.

G-6 Robert L. Moore, 11/1958 • Eugene Exman.

G-6 Sharpness of VF-30 but pitted. Kenneth W. Rendell • Edward H. Schwartz • A. Kosoff 10/1961: 58 $200 • Paul A. Palmer (Newport Balboa Savings & Loan Association) • A. Kosoff • Dr. Hiram T. Ward, 8/20/1978 • George E. Ewing, Jr. • Richard V. Punchard.

G-5 Mayflower Coin Co., 1969 • Denis W. Loring, 11/ 1969 • Dorothy Paschal • Robert S. Carter, Jr. • Del Bland • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. 3/1973 • Denis W. Loring, 5/ 1974. Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz - Dr. C. R. Chambers, 8/1982. Del Bland, 5/4/1984 George E. Ewing, Jr., 3/6/1986 • Frank H. Stillinger.

G-5 Purchased unattributed in 11/1982 from A. C. "Hance" Jaquett by Fred H. Borcherdt.

Obverse 25. Top three locks are unusually far apart. Single thin hair strand atop the head ends below Ii another protrudes above the end of the fourth lock. Fifth curl point from bottom arises from a wave, not from the end of a lock. Heavy hollow shoulder loop. Within a hollow place in the hair, in a gap in the second lock, above the 1 and space left, is a microscopic crack slanting down to the right. B is slightly low. The date is spaced 179 4 with the 7 leaning markedly to the right. This is best seen by noting the angle between the top of the 7 and the bottom of the shoulder loop. Two dentils join above IB with the right one longer.

Reverse BB. Often, especially on later states, properly aligned with clear dentils at the right. This die was likely realigned in the press after removal of clash marks. Rim crumbling involves seven or eight dentils from right of the F to above M.

Die states: I. No clash marks.

II. No obverse clash marks. Faint reverse clash marks from the hair within the wreath.

III. Heavy clash marks in the hair, near cap, and above the head. Heavy clash marks from hair in the wreath.

IV. Faint, nearly horizontal crack from the rim to hair below the cap. The Robinson S. Brown Jr. coin shows, under strong magnification, at least three sets of obverse clash marks, almost perfectly aligned.