Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 27.

Reverse II. Right stem is short, extending less than halfway between the ribbon and final A. Seven berries on each branch with the top two outer berries on the left branch smallest. Leaf point left of O(N) supports a long drooping berry stem at its middle. Fraction bar is short and thin and the denominator is spaced 1 00 with the final zero high. I and E are above N, T, and D. A is above T-T.

Die states: 1. Obverse reground to remove clash marks with only partial success. Curl points are thinner, except the lowest. The crack through LIBE and the cap to the border is very faint. Clashed dentils through the fraction, ribbon, and UN. (Sheldon must have forgotten about this coin; Penny Whimsy, p. 122, merely recopies Early American Cents, pp. 122-3: "The marks of injury to the die [obverse state TII]. .. are present on all coins that I have seen.")

II. New set of clash marks from the hair in the central reverse.

III. Additional clash marks from the stem below the space between rs. Other clash marks are heavier. At least one die must have come loose in its die cup when the accident occurred.

IV. Cracked above TE(S) and from A(T) through the wreath to (I)T and through NI to the rim.

Equivalents: Maris 24. Frossard 14.2. Doughty 22.

Hays 36. McGirk 6D. Ross 22- Y. Chapman 42. Sheldon 61. EAC 50. Encyclopedia 1668.

Rarity 4.

Remarks: These blanks are of normal weight with some slightly heavier. Two in the American Numismatic Society weigh 209.80 grains (13.59 grams) and 214.44 grains (13.89 grams). This does not justify Sheldon's claims that this variety comes on extra thick planchets: see introductory text preceding number 56.

Believed included in the delivery of August 14.

Condition Census:

MS-65 James G. Macallister • Milton A. Holmes • Stack's 10/1960: 1381 $1,700 • Dorothy Paschal • Gordon J. Wrubel • Tom Morley, 1978 • John W. Adams, via Lester Merkin •unknown.

MS-60 Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 12/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS • Dr. William H. Sheldon • T. James Clarke, 10/1954 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • John W. Adams • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries FPL, 1982: 60 $8,000 • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries RCR #46, December 1982 $8,000 • Dr. Boyd E. Hayward • Bowers and Merena 9/1997: 263, withdrawn. State III. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

AU-55 Quality of MS-61 but a long obverse scratch. Major Sir Rowland Denys Guy Winn, M. c., 4th Baron St. Oswald • Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd. (London) 10/1964: 156 $1,008 • Stack's • Frank H. Masters, Jr. • Rare Coin Company of America 5/1971: 73 $3,200 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM) • Dr. Thomas Turissini • Walter Husak. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-55 Charles H. Fisher, 1948 • Homer K Downing, 1949 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 382 $1,600 • Dr. Edward R. Bush • Darwin B. Palmer, Jr. • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • David Berg. Gordon J. Wrubel • Dorothy Paschal • Charter Oak Coin Co. • Jack H. Beymer • Jeffrey Oliphant.

AU-50 A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd. (London), 11 /1946 • Willard C. Blaisdell, 2/17 /1975 • Del Bland • Dr. Robert A. Schuman, 3/1976 • Del Bland • Myles Z. Gerson • Bertram Cohen • George E. Ewing, Jr. • Del Bland, 7/31/1984 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 108 $5,775 • Daniel W. Holmes, Jr. State II.

AU-50 From Europe • Lester Merkin 3/1968: 168 $560 • Dr. I. Herbert Katz • Lester Merkin, 1/16/1974 • C. Douglas Smith • Del Bland • George E. Ewing, Jr.

EF-45 With a small planchet defect on the reverse edge. E. Gilbert Thomas L. Elder #44, 10/1910: 36 $29 • H. O. Granberg. William H. Woodin • The United States Coin Co. 5/1915: 121 $17 • Henry C. Miller • The United States Coin Co. 12/1917: 415 $115 • Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 60 $125 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl - Dr. William H. Sheldon • Norman Stack Collection • Auction '88 (Stack's): 1013 $2,860 • Denis W. Loring • Roy Rauch • Tom Morley. Superior Galleries 5/1992: 441 $7,425 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr.• Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 87 $8,250 • Walter Husak. Obverse and reoerse illustrated in Elder-Gilbert and in Chapman.

EF-40 Sharpness of AU-55 but edge dents and some corrosion. Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp • ANS.

VF-30 Sharpness of AU-55 but porous; cleaned and recolored. Dr. William H. Sheldon • ANS.

VF-30 Henry C. Hines • Homer K. Downing. 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1680 $37.50 • Dr. William H. Sheldon • C. Douglas Smith, 1965 • Alfred Bonard.

VF-30 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co, #458, 2/1945: 53 $32.50 • Dr. William H. Sheldon. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

VF-30 Dr. William H. Sheldon • Stack's 10/1938: 327 as "Unc." $25 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill. New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal.

VF-30 Sharpness of EF-40 but finely rough. Philip G. Straus • Stack's 5/1959: 131 as "S-60, Hays-35" $60. Robert J. Kissner • Stack's 6/1975: 260 $400.