Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 20. As in number 36.
Reverse Z.
Die states: I. Perfect obverse. Reverse cracked, as preceding, along the left side of A(T) and down from the rim to the right top of (A)T.

II. Obverse clash marks at the chin and below. No reverse clash marks.
III. Narrow rim break before chin.
IV. Heavier clash marks. Arc crack through the date. Available specimens have obverse border too narrow to show if the rim break has advanced. See Remarks.
V. Rim. breaks before the nose and throat. Reverse rim breaks above (A)T and AM.
VI. Heavy obverse cracks from the rim to T and back to the rim, branching to y and to the rim.

VII. Retained cud on TY.

VIII. Rim break on TY.

IX. Retained cud on ER, beginning at the rim above B and ending at the break on TY.

X. Cud covering the top of E, though that letter no longer shows. Die failing below the arc crack at the date.

All reverse breaks heavy. Discovered about 1957.

Equivalents: Gilbert 12. McGirk 9J, 9E2. Ross 11-H.

Clapp-Newcomb 11. Sheldon 115. EAC 43. Encyclopedia 1697.

High Rarity 3.

Remarks: J. P. Hale Jenkins christened his state IV coin "Gilbert 41," though Gilbert had called it his number 12.

Two examples are known off-center at K-11:30 (Ruby I: 442 and Jack H. Robinson: 190).

Condition Census:

EF-45 Wayte Raymond, 1/1926 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State V. Obverse illustrated in Clapp-Newcomb, in Early American Cents, and in Penny Whimsy. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

EF-40 Purchased unattributed from R. N. Matylewicz by George Ramont - Charles E. Harrison, 3/1993 •

VF-30 David Proskey • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19 /1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • John Whitney.

VF-25 E. Gilbert • Thomas L. Elder #32, 7/1909: 709 $13.50 • H. O. Granberg • William H. Woodin • The United States Coin Co. 5/1915: 199 $4.25 • J. P. Hale Jenkins • Henry Chapman 7/1922: 1580 $6.50 • Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State II. Obverse illustrated in Gilbert-Elder.

VF-25 Gimbel's Coin Department (Robert Friedberg, New York City) • Dr. Frank Bryant, 2/1987 • Jack H. Beymer • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Fred H. Borcherdt.

VF-20J. P. Hale Jenkins • Henry Chapman 7/1922: 1582 $10. Robert O. Book, 5/1930. George H. Clapp. ANS. State IV.

VF-20 William K. Raymond • Del Bland • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Denis W. Loring, 5/1974 • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Ellen Enzler • Numismatic and Antiquarian Service Corporation of America 12/1978: 2607 not sold • Ellen Enzler • Downie-Lepczyk Auctions, Ltd. #69, 8/1986: 1387 not sold • Ellen Enzler, 4/1/1988. Dennis Mendelson, 7/15/1991 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 160 $4,840. State III.

VF-20 Sharpness of VF-35 but lightly porous. Dr. Henry C. Schwab • Thomas L. Elder 5/1937: 1102 $21.50. Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal, 1972 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 156 $770 • Dr. Ralph W. Rucker. State II.

F-15 Ray Chatham • Del Bland, 1/1979 • Dr. Willard J.Carmel, Jr., 10/2/1981 • G. Lee Kuntz • Superior Galleries 10/1991: 127 $1,320.

F-15 Abner Kreisberg 6/1963: 172 $105 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 430 $250 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Del Bland • Myles Z. Gerson. Dr. Philip W. Ralls • Michael/Mickey" Arconti.

F-15 G. Kraft, 1/1923 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State I.

F-15 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 107 $22.50 • Dr. William H. Sheldon.