Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

VF-20 Sharpness ofVF-30 but some edge dents. Purchased unattributed on 8/24/1976 at the ANA convention from Florida Coin Exchange by Denis W. Loring, 8/1976 • Dr. Hiram T. Ward, 7/1978 • Denis W. Loring, 8/1978 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 125 $3,190 • Robert E. Matthews • Superior Galleries 5/1989: 235 $5,280 • Wes A. Rasmussen. State 1.

VF-20 Sharpness of VF-35 but porous. Henry C. Hines • Homer K. Downing. 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1732 $67.50 • Christian M. Petersen • Hollinbeck Coin Co., privately 12/1954 • Dr. Charles L. Ruby, 12/1972 • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. • Superior Galleries 2/1974: 432 $800 • Darwin B. Palmer, Jr. • William R T. Smith • Jack H. Beymer • Roger S. Cohen, Jr. • Superior Galleries 2/1992: 771 $2,530.

F-15 Sharpness of VF-35 but porous. Purchased unattributed by Richard Picker, 12/7/1964 • Jackson C. Storm, 7/31/1984 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 173 $3,300 • John R Frankenfield. State 1.

VG-10 Sharpness of VF-35 but porous. Frank Whitesell • Early American Coppers 4/1985: 109 $1,250 • Frank H. Stillinger.

VG-10 Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal.

VG-10 Howard R Newcomb J. C.Morgenthau & Co. #458,2/1945: 127 $15 • Dr. William H. Sheldon.

VG-10 Dr. William H. Sheldon, 12/28/1956 • C. Douglas Smith, 1970 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr.

VG-10 Purchased unattributed by Del Bland, 2/1971 • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen.

VG-10 Purchased unattributed at the 1997 ANA convention by Christopher B. Young (Chesapeake Bay Rare Coins).

Obverse 20. L high, bases of LI close, RT less close, IBER wider, and TY widest. ER lean right with the bases of ERT successively higher. Curved date, spaced 1 796 with the bases of 17 in line and the bases of 796 successively higher. In the date, 6 leans left and nearly touches the drapery. B is normally formed, unlike the preceding.

Reverse V. Type of 1795. Three triplets on the left branch with two on the right. These are at UN, ED, O(N), (N)E, and ER. Five berries left and four right with a berry right of the bow. Fraction bar is skewed left. E is below CNT, u is low, and T is above 5-A, free of A.

II. Obverse clash marks from the leaves above the knot and before the face and neck.

Equivalents: Gilbert 19,27,37. McGirk 7C, 70. Clapp-Newcomb 19. Sheldon 116. EAC 36. Encyclopedia 1689. The designation "G-27" is from the Dr. French fixed price list, lot 134.

Rarity 5.

Remarks: This obverse was resurrected in late November or December 1797 for use on number 43.

Should any examples of this variety be found with the obverse showing clash marks from reverse die Z of number 43, then this variety would have been struck between states I and II of that number, altering the emission sequence presented here. Almost always weak around the double leaf at NT.

Struck on concavo-convex blanks.

Condition Census:

VF-35 Robert E. Matthews (Matthews Money Tree Co.), 5/1990 • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

VF-35 Seen in a California jewelry store in May 1998.

VF-30 Wayte Raymond, 1/1926 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State II. Reverse illustrated in Clapp-Newcomb. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

VF-25 Sharpness of EF-40 but rough surfaces. Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 134 $125 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl • B. Max Mehl #112, 4/1949: 2327 $80 • B. Max Mehl • B. Max Mehl #113, 5/1950: 2326 $66 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/ 1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner, 12/ 1993 • John Whitney.

VF-20 Purchased unattributed from Neil Diebert by George Ramont • Charles E. Harrison.