Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 12. Broken B which is usually weak. Rand y are low. Knob of 9 is weak. Corner of 7 almost a full millimeter from the drapery.

Reverse M. Heavily repunched F. AM touch. All berry stems are long. Wide fraction with the denominator skewed left and the numerator partly above the space between 00.

Fraction bar is very short with a die scratch into the right ribbon.

Edge: Plain (IV).

Die states: I. Perfect dies.

II. Reverse has double clash marks.

III. Reverse has a heavy straight crack from the rim through left ribbon, left stem, left side of bow, to C(E). Lighter crack from the numerator to ribbon near the knot. Heavy die injuries at the wreath: V-shaped above and left of C(E); straight, almost vertical, right of (N)E, engulfing the two inner and two outer leaves closest to this E.

IV. Advanced failures obliterate UNI, CE, and most of 100.

Equivalents: Proskey 19. Clapp-Newcomb 24. Sheldon

141. EAC 25. Encyclopedia 1711.

Rarity 4.

Remarks: Discovered by David Proskey.

A double struck example appeared in the 1975 EAC sale, lot 563. See "Oops!" chapter.

Condition Census

AU-55 J. P. Hale Jenkins • Henry Chapman 7/1922: 1589 $31 • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Dennis Mendelson • Dr. Philip W. Ralls. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Early American Cents, in Penny Whimsy, and in Noyes.

EF-45 William Beaver Chamberlin • Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd. 8/1987: 8 $4,000 • C. Douglas Smith. State 1.

VF-35 Charles J. Dupont. Stack's 9/1954: 178 $275. C. Douglas Smith.

VF-35 David M. Bullowa, 2/28/1950 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal, 6/1977 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner.

VF-35 Greg Gause, 12/2/1966 • an unidentified eastern collector.

VF-30 Sharpness of EF-40 but a long obverse scratch. A. C. "Hance" Jaquett, 11/1982 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

VF-25 Ellen Enzler • Numismatic and Antiquarian Service Corporation of America 12/1978: 2613 not sold • Ellen Enzler • Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr. • Dr. Philip W. Ralls, 3/1/1996 • Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr.

VF-25 Sharpness of EF-45 but dark olive and finely porous. Richard Gross Rare Coins • Jack H. Beymer, 12/4/1986. C. Douglas Smith • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988:142 $797.50. Jack H, Beymer, 3/12/1990 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr.• Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 200 $1,595 • Wes A. Rasmussen. State III.

VF-25 Mayflower Coin Auctions 5/1973: 81 $330 • Ellen Enzler • Numismatic and Antiquarian Service Corporation of America 12/1978: 2614 not sold • Ellen Enzler, 12/3/1981 • Frank H. Stillinger.

VF-25 George Ramont, 8/1976 • Del Bland • Jeffrey Oliphant.

VF-25 With a line-like planchet lamination on obverse. B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp &; Coin Co.), 4/1932 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State III. Obverse illustrated in Clapp- Newcomb.

VF-20 Del Bland • Gordon J. Wrubel • Ray Chatham. F-15 Walter Breen, 1955 • Dorothy Paschal, 11/1977 • John S. Ashby, Jr. (Ashby's Best Coppers) • Hans Hansen, 2/10/1990 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

F-15 Sharpness of EF-45 but dark olive and rough. W. E. Johnson, 3/21/1967 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 457 $225 • Roger S. Cohen, Jr. • Superior Galleries 2/1992: 830 $715 • March Wells, Jr.

F-15 Sharpness of VF-25 but some surface roughness. Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal • Eugene Exman, 11/1972 • Denis W. Loring, 5/1974. Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz.

F-15 Homer K. Downing. 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1782 $31 • C. Douglas Smith • StacKs 4/1955: 402 $45.

F-15 Howard R. Newcomb - J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 173 $20 • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #461, 5/ 1945: 173 $30 • Milton A. Holmes • Stacks 10/1960: 1398 $52.50 • art eastern consignments Superior Galleries 2/ 1976: 1429 $80 (large lot).