Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 8. Broken B. LIB are close with RTY successively lower. Moderately close date with 97 closer and the corner of 7 touching the drapery. The curl above the lowest curl is incomplete.

Reverse J. Six berries left and five right. The denominator is skewed left. Clashed dentils are visible at STATES, plainest at the left top of (A)T. Die of 1796 numbers 41-43.

Edge: Plain (III). Boulton blanks.

Die states: 1. Reverse clash marks, as noted above. II.

Cracked through the tops of ERT, to the rim at left top of T.

III. Obverse crack now extends through the top of Y. Two cracks cross it, from the rim through both arms of T to the forelock. Discovered by John Pawling.

IV. Cracked from the rim about 9:00 to top of the lower ribbon. The crack through ERTY now extends well to the right of Y, becoming a heavy rim break.'

Equivalents: Clapp-Newcomb 25. Sheldon NC-5.

EAC 17. Encyclopedia 1708.

Rarity 6.

Remarks: Discovered by A. C. Gies in 1935. Struck between numbers 41 and 42 of 1796.

Condition Census

EF-40 Discovered in 12/1956 in a lot of large cents from Massachusetts purchased by Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy and in Noyes.

VF-30 A. C. Gies, 12/13/1935 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State I. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Clapp-Newcomb and in Early American Cents.

VF-25 Discovered in 1954 in a hoard of 1600 large cents by John E. Borhek. State IV. Obverse illustrated in Noyes.

F-12 Purchased unattributed on 7/13/1984 at a Milwaukee coin show by Joseph Tomasko, Jr.

VG-10 Richard W. Tirrell, 3/1981 • Denis W. Loring, 3/1981 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

VG-10 Purchased unattributed in 6/1973 in Lakeland, Fl. by Thomas P. Wolf.

VG-8 Purchased unattributed, circa 1932, by Randle Fairchild, 10/11/1990 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

VG-8 New Netherlands Coin Co., via John J. Ford Jr. in 8/1960 at the ANA convention • Robert J. Kissner, 10/1960 • C. Douglas Smith.

VG-8 Dr. Charles E. McGirk • Walter F. Webb • Carl Wurtzbach • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal.

VG-7 Maj. Charles Cole • Darwin B. Palmer, Jr., 12/ 1970 • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen, 4/1978 • John D. Wright.

VG-7 Harold W. Cuddy, Sr., 10/1970 • Denis W Loring, 5/1974 • Dr. Robert J, Shalowitz • John W. Adams, 9/26/1974. Philip Van Cleave • Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #340, 1/1986: 5153 $907.50 • Greg Mellon.

G-6 Robert C. Sheffer • Glenville Coin, 2/1984 • James E. Long, Jr. G. E. L. Coins) • an unidentified eastern collector.

G-6 Purchased unattributed in 1968 by Dr. Warren A. Lapp.

G-6 Thomas D. Reynolds, 1/1995. Denis W. Loring, 1/1995 • Dr. Bruce Reinoehl.