Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 17. R, 1, and both points of 7 touch hair.

Reverse P. M corrected from an E.

Edge: Plain. Other edges may exist.

Die states: I. Perfect dies.

II. Cracked from the rim right of date to the drapery.

III. Cracked from the rim to low curls, later extending over 1.

IV. Small arc crack in the drapery above final 7. Another crack parallel to that of state ill, at first not reaching the curls, is represented there by a bulge, later a plain crack. Faint crack from the rim to ribbon. At least five sets of clash marks, all faint, above and below the ribbon and before the throat.

Reverse has at least six sets of clash marks in the wreath. Tiny lump on base of I(c).

V. Cracked from the rim down through IBE to hair. The state IV crack from rim to ribbon is plainer and extends down to the back curls. The state ill crack eventually reaches 9.

VI. At least 10 sets of obverse clash marks. Reverse has plain clash marks from the drapery at s o. Eleven dentils above TES blur together.

VII. Additional crack, from the rim to ribbon, above that of state V. Cracked from the rim to tops of u.

VIII. Cracked, from the tops of TY to rim, from the nose to rim, and from the drapery to rim above. At least 12 sets of clash marks.

IX. Short vertical crack behind the second curl joins the parallel cracks. Minor rim crumbling over D STAT is only visible on well-centered coins. Later, cracked from 97 to the rim.

Equivalents: Proskey 18. Doughty 109. McGirk 17 A, 17B. Clapp-Newcomb 11. Sheldon 128. EAC 23. Encyclopedia 1710.

Low Rarity 3.

Remarks: Jonathan K. Kern turned up a holed example overstruck on an unidentified foreign coin or token. Undertype traces include a letter 0 and part of ship's rigging in a configuration different from Talbot, Allum & Lee tokens or any British or Irish token listed in Dalton & Harner, (Richard Dalton and Samuel H. Hamer. The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century. London, 1910-1918. Reprints: Stow, Mass: A.D. Hoch, 1967; London, 1968; 1977.) No further information is known at this time.

Condition Census

AU-55 Stephen C. Fenton (Knightsbridge Coins, London) • Ronald J. Gillio. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-50 Dorothy Paschal • New Netherlands Coin Co. #50, 12/1957: 1047$160 • R. E. Naftzger Jr; • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 444 $600 • A-Mark Coin Co., 2/1976. Del Bland, 12/20/1976 • Jeffrey Oliphant. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy. Obverse illustrated in Noyes.

EF-45 Dr. Thomas Hall, 9/7/1909 • Virgil M. Brand • M. C. Brown • Associated Coin Auction Co. 10/1955: 1159 $46 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 1/1957 • C. Douglas Smith. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents.

EF-45 Fort Worth Coin Co., 10/1981 • Douglas F. Bird • Del Bland • Bertram Cohen, 3/30/1985 • C. Douglas Smith, 4/29/1993 • Eric Streiner • Thomas D. Reynolds, 6/1/1993 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 183 $3,740 • Wes A. Rasmussen.

EF-45 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 147 $35 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal.

EF-40 Sharpness of AU-50 but cleaned and recolored; light corrosion spots. Jack H. Beymer, 11/24/1981 • C. Douglas Smith. State VI.

EF-40 Thomas P. Warfield • Associated Coin Auction Co. 10/1955: 242 $29 • Dorothy Paschal, 1974 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 183 $1,760 • Steven K. Ellsworth. State VII.

EF-40 Sharpness of AU-50 but some nicks and an edge dent; cleaned and recolored. Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 160 $150 • Harold Bareford, 9/13/1985 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 130 $2,530 • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • C. Douglas Smith • Roxanne Greenstein.

EF-40 Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 161 $130 • Dorothy Nelson • Stack's 2/1976: 33 $350 • Tom Morley • Cape Kennedy Medals 7/1976: 160 $260 • Jerry A. Bobbe • C. Douglas Smith • Larry Whitlow (Ford City Coins & Stamos. Ltd.) • Frank Simon • Raymond Kelly • Kagin' s Numismatic Auctions #317, 10/1979: 945 $550 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

EF-40 Eric P. Newman, 3/16/1971 • R. Tettenhorst, 10/1995 • Jay Parrino (The Mint) = Superior.Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 1036 $2,040 • Thomas D. Reynolds FPL #85,3- 4/1996 $3,900 • W. M. "Jack" Wadlington.

EF-40 Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 3/1921 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State III.

EF-40 Edward Duff Mace • Hans M. F. Schulman 12/ 1968: 50 $175 • Stack's • Eugene Exman.

EF-40 With blunt striking on drapery at end of bust. Sharpness of AU-50 but some faint abrasions; cleaned and retoned. Casey Sisneros (Willoughby Rare Coins).

EF-40 C. H. Stearns • Mayflower Coin Auctions 12/1966: 331 $77.50 • "E. A. D."

EF-40 1971 ANA (Stacks): 9 $270.