Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

AU-50 John P. Young • Barney Bluestone #88, 7/1945: 651 $127.50.

EF-40 Henry Chapman • Henry Chapman 6/1909: 734 $17 • J. W. Scott & Co., Ltd. • Henry C. Miller • Thomas L. Elder 4/1917: 655 $70 • Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 19 $80 • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Homer K. Downing. 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1636 $155 • Harold Bareford, 9/13/1985 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1987: 107 $5,775. State IV

EF-40 With some obverse planchet defects. From England • Jonathan K. Kern Del Bland, 5/1977. Jerry A. Bobbe • Myles Z. Gerson • Jack H. Beymer • George E. Ewing, Jr. • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 25 $8,525. State V.

VF-30 Ed. Frossard Collection • Ed. Frossard #37 10/ 1884: 852 (Frossard's entire collection of 1794 cents was sold en masse to T. Harrison Garrett. Lots 850 through 900 were included for a total price of $420.) • T. Harrison Garrett • Robert Garrett. Frank D. Taylor • Henry Chapman 6/1908: 13 • DeWitt Smith, 12/31/1908 • Virgil M. Brand • Bowers and Merena 11/1983: 474 $3,960 • Anthony Terranova • Norman Stack Collection • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 19 $8,800 • David Bloom • Auction '89 (Stack's): 1538 $7,425 • Anthony Terranova • Tom Morley • Superior Galleries 5/1992: 162 $7,975 • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM), 6/ 1996 • Walter Husak.

VF-30 A Long Island consignment • Stack's 3/1989: 1464 $3,850 • Don Valenziano, Jr. • Chris Victor McCawley (CVM) • Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., 8/17/1990 • Darwin B. Palmer, Jr. • Daniel Trollan.

VF-30 Glen Wallace • A. Kosoff • Rare Coin Company of America 5/1974: 798 $2,300 • Del Bland • Tom Morley • Del Bland, 2/1978 • Denis W. Loring, 7/1981 • Tom Morley, 7/1981 • John G. Wood, 8/1981 • Denis W. Loring, 6/1982 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 25 $6,050 • Dr. Ralph W. Rucker. State V.

VF-25 John P. Lyman • S. H. Chapman 11/1913: 397 $29 • Henry C. Hines • Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 25 $110 • Dorothy Paschal, 11/1974 • Denis W. Loring, 5/7/1983 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 24 $5,280 • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM). State III.

VF-25 With a huge planchet defect through the right obverse field. Purchased unattributed in 9/1988 by Peter Boisvert • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Peter Boisvert • Bowers and Merena 9/1989: 42 $605 • Jim McGuigan and Don Valenziano, Jr. • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM),12/16/1989 Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 25 $3,960 • Walter Husak.

Obverse 2.

Reverse B. Long heavy dentils, very close to the legend with some nearly touching letters. Long stems lying along ribbons with ends unusually close to them. C in CENT is high and leans right. Eight berries left and seven right, with a detached eighth berry a little above and right of that at M.

Edge: 1. Point and stem of leaf after DOLLAR point down.

See illustration on page 95.

Die states: I. Obverse as preceding, state IV: bulge from below the cap to middle curl. No reverse rust.

II. As in 3b.

Equivalents: Maris 2, "Double Chin." Frossard 2.1.

Doughty 19. Hays 2. McGirk 8B. Ross 2-A. Chapman 2. Sheldon 19a. EAC 3a. Encyclopedia 1652.

High Rarity 5.

Remarks: This subvariety was reportedly discovered by Harlan P. Smith before 1906. Specimens are usually on cruder, darker planchets than the Taylor & Bailey blanks used for 2b.

According to Sheldon, Maris called this the "Ugly Tooth" reverse, for its prominent, sharply pointed dentils. (Early American Cents, p.85; Penny Whimsy, p.87)

I have found no earlier mention in print. The reverse die looks very similar to reverse I, below.

Dan Trollan reports an example from the Gary Ruttenberg collection (Early Copper Auction, 8/1996, lot 72)with the edge blundered ONE HUNDREDED FOR A DOLLAR. (Letter to Mark Borckardt, April 28, 1997.)