Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 18.

Reverse Q. Drastically reground with fragmented left ribbon, bow partly hollow, and six leaves on the left branch hollow or incomplete. c(A) and 1(00) lean right. The numerator rests on the fraction bar which slants down to the right.

Edge: Plain.

Die states: I. Obverse as number 24, state II.

II. Obverse has a small piece broken off the die between the two cracks. Another crack forms a short extra tail to R, below middle, between upright and the real tail. Double clash marks.

III. Chips behind the head at base of the two cracks; others in the forelock and below' tail of R. Reverse has faint four fold clash marks.

IV. The state II break behind the head is now solid to the rim. Defects in the right obverse field. Reverse with at least eight sets of clash marks. Most leaves are weakened with some rust pits.

V. Faint vertical crack in right obverse field. Faint chip hangs from tip of nose. As number 27, state II.

Equivalents: Proskey 8. Doughty 99. McGirk 7 A, 5D?

Clapp-Newcomb 13. Sheldon 130. EAC 25. Encyclopedia 1711.

Rarity 2.

Remarks: An earlier state may exist with normal ribbons. The peculiarities of the fraction will identify this reverse.

The last of these were struck after number 26.

The Jack H. Robinson coin (lot 255) shows two light curved clips at K-8 and K-10. John D. Wright has a double struck example, from the Dupont collection, with the two impressions rotated about 150 degrees.

Condition Census

MS-60 Brought from the United States to Sweden in the first decade of the 19th century and passed down through the same Swedish family until recently given to Edwin Petterson, also of Sweden, who while on vacation brought the coin back to the United States and sold it through Coins of the Realm and Bonanza Coins on 3/9/1982 to Kenneth D. Pines.

MS-60 George Pappas, 11/19/1949 • C. Douglas Smith. State III. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-55 J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #394, 2/1939: 562 $48 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner.

AU-50 David Proskey • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen • Gary Hendrickson.

AU-50 Fred S. Werner • Kenneth M. Goldman, 1982 • Denis W. Loring, 10/1984 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

AU-50 Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1771 $42.50 • A. Kosoff • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 446 $350 • Julian Leidman • Fred Sweeney Rare Coins • Gordon J. Wrubel, 1/1975 • C. Douglas Smith • Del Bland. Rare Coin Galleries of Seattle • Martin Levy (Liberty Coin Shop).

AU-50 With a tiny planchet clip. Henry C. Hines • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1770 $50 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Gordon J. Wrubel • Charles "Chip" Southwick III • First Coinvestors • Pine Tree Auction Co. 11/1975: 172 $800 • First Coinvestors • Pine Tree Auction Galleries #5, 8/1976: 10 $825 • Roy Rauch.

AU-50 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B.MaxMehl FPL, 1929: 173 $100 • Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 151 $52. 50 James Kelly.

EF-45 S. W. Chubbuck • John W. Haseltine 2/1873: 1839 $3.75 • Richard B. Winsor • S. H. & H. Chapman • 12/1895: 855 $6.50 • Charles H. Deetz, 9/1926 • George H. Clapp. ANS. Reverse illustrated in Clapp-Newcomb, in Early American Cents, and in Penny Whimsy. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents.

EF-45 Sharpness of AU-55 but a reverse edge dent; cleaned and retoned. Henry C. Miller. Thomas L. Elder 4/1917: 749 $26 • Hillyer Ryder, 5/1945 • Wayte Raymond • Wayte Raymond 11/1945: 80 $82.50 • James A. Stack, Sr. • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries 4/1979: 134 $600 • John Christensen (Excelsior Coin Gallery) • Kurt R Krueger • Kurt R Krueger #15, 6/1979: 1 • Kurt R Krueger • Kurt R Krueger#19, 3/1980:2. Kurt R. Krueger Kurt R. Krueger #21, 7/1980: 9 $900 •

EF-45 Wayte Raymond, 1/1926 • George H. Clapp • ANS • (no longer in ANS collection).

EF-45 Dudley R Child • Lyman H. Low 2/1908: 217 $2.35 • Henry Chapman • Henry Chapman 6/1909: 749 $4.50 • Alvin J. Fink • unknown • Charles J. Dupont. Stack's 9/1954: 162 $170 = Dorothy Nelson = Stack's 21 1976: 34 $500.

EF-45 F. C. C. Boyd, 1957 • New Netherlands Coin Co. • New Netherlands Coin Co. #50, 12/1957: 1048 $77.50 • Allen E. McDowell. Obverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy.