Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 2.

Reverse A.

Edge: II. Point and stem of leaf after DOLLAR point up. See illustration on page 65.
Die states: II. As preceding.

III. Dies are again clashed and repolished. Some clash marks from the hair still show in the left wreath. Right ribbon is fragmented.

IV. Bulge from below cap to middle curl.

V. Bulge between ED and the left wreath. On later strikings, this bulge covers TED, eventually encroaching on the adjacent leaves and finally ITED.

Equivalents: Maris 52. Frossard 2.2. Doughty 20 and 65. Hays 3. McGirk 7 A. Ross 2-B. Chapman 3. Sheldon 18b. EAC 2b. Encyclopedia 1651.

Rarity 4.

Remarks: The earliest die states include some of the finest survivors, most likely saved as novelties by people who had not seen the 1793 Caps. Surfaces of high-grade survivors are occasionally prooflike, primarily because they were made on the new Taylor & Bailey blanks. The Garrett coin and at least a couple of others have been conjectured to be presentation strikings.

Condition Census:

MS-61 John F. McCoy • W. Elliot Woodward 5/1864: 661 $10 • J. N. T. Levick • Edward Cogan 5/1865: 1352 $9 • Abram S. Jenks • Edward Cogan 4/1877: 701 $21 • George W. Merritt • Ed. Frossard 1/1879: 95 $15 • Ed. Frossard • Lorin G. Parmelee • New York Coin & Stamp Co. 6/1890: 693 $52 • John G. Mills • S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1904: 1236 $49 • S. H. & H. Chapman $55 • Robert Garrett, 1919 • John Work Garrett • Johns Hopkins University, privately 3/1973 • John W. Adams. Bowers and Ruddy Galleries FPL, 1982: 5 $55,000 • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries RCR #46, December 1982 $55,000 • Bowers and Merena Galleries RCR #48, June-July 1983 $55,000 • John W. Adams, 2/12/1984 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Jay Parrino (The Mint), 5/14/1996 • W. M. "Jack" Wadlington. State III. Obverse and reverse illustrated in the 1879 Frossard Monograph, in Chapman, and in Noyes.

MS-61 Thomas Cleneay • S. H. & H. Chapman 12/1890: 1801 $42.50 • J. F. Anger • Arba Borden • Col. James W. Ellsworth, 3/1923 • Wayte Raymond • Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 12/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State III. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

MS-60 M. P. Lyons • S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1903: 1236 $49 • George H. Earle, Jr. • Henry Chapman 6/1912: 3370 $75 • S. H. Chapman $100 • J. P. Hale Jenkins • Henry Chapman 7/1922: 1474 $155 • Henry C. Hines. Carl Wurtzbach • Charles Wheeler • 1976 ANA (Stack's): 347 $14,000 • Dr. Edward R. Bush • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • Early American Coppers 5/1990: 20 $31,000 • Daniel W. Holmes, Jr.

AU-55 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 21 $200 • T. James Clarke, 10/1954 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • Early American Coppers 4/1989: 20 $36,000 • Dr. Allen Bennett.

AU-55 With a tiny planchet clip. C. T. Whitman • S. H. & H. Chapman 8/1893: 825 $35 • Ed. Frossard • Dr. Thomas Hall, 9/7/1909 • Virgil M. Brand • New Netherlands Coin Co. #34, 10/1951: 575 $170 • Willard C. Blaisdell, 2/17/1975 • Del Bland • Dr. Robert A. Schuman. Myles Z. Gerson • Del Bland, 3/15/1985 • Bertram Cohen • George E. Ewing, Jr., 10/1993 • Dr. Robert A. Schuman.

AU-55 Seen in April 1991 at the Early American Coppers convention.

AU-55 Mint Collection of the United States, Smithsonian Institute.

AU-50 E. Gilbert • Thomas L. Elder #44, 10/1910: 3 $61 • H. O. Granberg • William H. Woodin • The United States Coin Co. 5/1915: 85 $108 • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 340 $4,250 • John W. Adams • Alan J. Brotman (Numismatic Gallery). Obverse and reverse illustrated in Elder-Gilbert. Obverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-50 Virgil M. Brand • B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.), 8/1/1945 $170 • James Kelly • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Sheraton Coin Co. • 1947 ANA (Numismatic Gallery #40): 779 $140 • Edward L. Urban • Lester Merkin, 6/15/1977 • Andrew M. Hain • Dennis E. Steinmetz (Steinmetz Coins & Currency) • 1980 ANA (Steve Ivy Numismatic Auctions): 939 $15,000 • Anthony Terranova • Stack's, privately. Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 18 $15,400 • John M. Foreman, Sr. • Kenneth M. Goldman, 6/1991 • John B. MacDonald • Denis W. Loring. State II.