Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

V. Reverse cracks from the rim through left side of u, and from the rim to lower part of the upright of (M)E. Buckling at ER becomes heavier.

Equivalents: Proskey 11. Doughty 102. McGirk 12A, 12B. Clapp-Newcomb 19. Sheldon 136. EAC 15. Encyclopedia 1705.

Low Rarity 3.

Remarks: Obverse date layout as on number 2.

Knowledge of the edge subvarieties is too recent for certain knowledge of rarity. Condition census coins listed below may belong to either edge group.

The die chips probably occurred at hardening. Clapp referred to this and other dies with this problem as "poor steel."

Condition Census

AU-55 1974 ANA (Paramount International Coin Corp.): 318 $1,200 • Joe Flynn, Sr. Coin Co. • Stack's, 9/1980 • C. Douglas Smith • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Del Bland • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

AU-55 David Proskey • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/ 1992 • Eric Streiner • Anthony Terranova • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM), 11/30/1996 • W. M. "Jack" Wadlington. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-55 Stephen C. Fenton (Knightsbridge Coins, London). Ronald J. Gillio, 8/19/1985. Douglas F. Bird, 5/29/1986 • C. Douglas Smith. State II.

AU-50 Henry C. Hines • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA. (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1777 $52.50 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Gordon J. Wrubel • Jerry A. Bobbe, 2/20/1975 • C. Douglas Smith • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz, 4/1985 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 12/11/1986 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 137 $1,485 • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz, 4/15/1988 • C. Douglas Smith. Beaded Edge. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

AU-50 Consignment York, Pennsylvania • Mason Dixon Coin Exchange #11, 3/1957: 744 • unknown • Lester Merkin 10/1966: 103 $825.

EF-45 Consignment Scandinavia • Stack's 6/1983: 412 $925 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

EF-40 Sharpness of AU-50 but some fine obverse porosity. Virgil M. Brand • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 6/19/1954. C. Douglas Smith.

EF-40 Glen Wallace • A. Kosoff • Rare Coin Company of America 5/1974: 847 $125 • C. Douglas Smith, 11/1981 • Jack H. Beymer • Ed Kucia (Libertas Americana Galleries), 9/3/1988 • Daniel W. Holmes, Jr.

EF-40 Robert P. French. B. Max Mehl #20, 9/1912: 439 $4.60 • Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 7/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State II. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Clapp-Newcomb.

EF-40 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co.#458,2/1945: 164 $37.50 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill. New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal. • Early American Coppers #1, 8/1970: 19 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 194 $935 • Roger S. Cohen, Jr. • Superior Galleries 2/1992: 819 $2,750 • John R. Frankenfield. State V. Beaded Edge.

Obverse 6.

Reverse E. Six berries left and five right. Part of an extra S below S(T). Bows are hollow and the left wreath stem is thin.

Edge: Beaded (II) or plain (III). Plain Edge coins are from Boulton blanks.

Die states: 1. Rust develops in the right obverse field.

No bulges, cracks, or clash marks.

II. Reverse is bulged, beginning at ICA.

III. Cracked from the rim to right ribbon end.

IV. At least 13 sets of clash marks. Cracks from A(M) to wreath and from the rim through R to a leaf tip, at first faint. The crack of state III now extends, at first faintly, through CA.

V. Crack from the rim to back of c(A). Bulge of state II extends to RICA.

VI. Bulge at UN. The bulge of state II weakens, and later obliterates, both RICA and the adjacent cracks.