Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

AU-55 Purchased in the early 1960s by a New Jersey type coin collector, and on 3/30/1990 sold to Fred H. Borcherdt.

AU-50 E. Gilbert • H. O. Granberg • Henry C. Hines, 1946 • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal.

AU-50 Virgil M. Brand, 2/7/1941 • B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.) • Dr. William H. Sheldon. Sheraton Coin Co. • 1947 ANA (Numismatic Gallery #40): 814 $30 • Harold E. Whiteneck (Sheraton Coin Co.).

EF-45 Sharpness of AU-55 but some long, lightobverse scratches; cleaned and recolored. 1957 ANA (Federal Coin Exchange): 79 $85 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 12/11/1986 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 90 $2,310 • Jay Erlichman - Stack's 9/1995: 1155 $5,720. State IV.

EF-45 Purchased at the 1974 Penn-Ohio convention by Chuck Furjanic • Gordon J. Wrubel, 2/1975 • Denis W. Loring, 12/28/1981 • Del Bland • George E. Ewing, Jr. • Eric Streiner • Stack's 1/1993: 1098 $2,310 • Anthony Terranova, Thomas D. Reynolds, and Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM).

EF-45 Consignment B South Dakota • Hollinbeck Stamp and Coin Co. #105, 9/1951: 113 • Hollinbeck Stamp and Coin Co. • Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. #226, 6/1959: 41 • Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. • Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. #262, 1/1966: 813 $300 • Philip Van Cleave • Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #340, 1/1986: 5069 $2,420 • Del Bland • Jeffrey Oliphant.

EF-45 Bowers and Ruddy Galleries 5/1977: 1117 $900 • Donald Glick • Bowers and Merena 9/1993: 1212 $2,860.

EF-45 Western Numismatics • A-Mark Coin Co. 31 1973: 45 $575 • Western Numismatics • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries RCR #18, August-September 1973 $995.

EF-45 Richard Williams • Noble Numismatics (Australia) 7/1994: 2437 • Andrew P. Lustig • Thomas D. Reynolds.

Obverse 27. Chin and lips are a little smaller than usual. Forelock is unusually large and angular. Heavy ends to locks with the fifth lock chopped, its severed end isolated in the field as on obverse 28, however, the lowest lock is normal. Heavy hair outlining back of the head where it meets the cap. Part of the hair immediately right is much weaker, with a hollow look. Cap and pole touch or practically touch the dentils with the top of the cap irregularly shaped. Widely spaced IBERTY with B low and TY below R. Close date with 1 touching the hair and 4 almost touching the bust.

Reverse HH. Three berries under ER are nearly in a straight line. A leaf almost touches D. Right-hand leaf of the pair below (N)T is edgewise. Six berries left and five right. Right ribbon begins high and is detached from the knot. Narrow AS. S is below the adjacent T and very close to it; A is above T-T.

Die states: I. Without clash marks. (Reported by Sheldon: Early American Cents, p. 122; and Penny Whimsy, p.121. Not seen.)

II. Obverse has heavy clash marks below LIB from two leaves, the stem, and ribbon. Other clash marks are in the hair and before the throat. Faintly cracked through the cap. Reverse has light clash marks from the hair within the wreath.

III. The crack now extends from LIBE through top of the cap to left border below the cap and is heaviest near the cap. Additional clash marks on both sides: extra leaves below L, two stems below I and left foot of B, others from leaves within the cap and in the hair. Heavy traces of hair in the upper left wreath.

IV. Faint crack from rim to the hair left of 1. Struck after some or all of number 53.

V. Crack from the rim left of the hair through the bases of 179. Clash marks are heavier, especially on the reverse. Reported yet not seen.

Equivalents: Maris 23, ''Patagonian'' Frossard 14.1.

Doughty 21. Hays 35. McGirk 2C. Ross 22-X. Chapman 41. Sheldon 60. EAC 51. Encyclopedia 1668.

High Rarity 3.

Remarks: Chapman (Cents of the Year 1794, p. 24.) reported one weighing 222 grains (14.39 grams) or 6.7% overweight with the comment "extraordinary." Many others weighed since have been within the normal range. The American Numismatic Society coin is light at 202.31 grains (13.11 grams). See "Oops!" chapter.

The narrow AS found on this reverse do not occur on other cents, and are thought to belong to the half dollar series, however, have not currently been identified.

This obverse is a fairly dose copy of obverse 25 and was probably made immediately after the latter.

These are believed to be included among the varieties delivered August 14.