Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 19. Repunched, broken B with the top serif missing and the lower serif doubled. LI closely spaced. 1 and 7 apart with the date usually weak. Pair of dentils opposite the throat are joined.

Reverse S.

Edge: Usually plain (IV, late). Chris Young reports one with edge II. Jim Young, Jr. reports one with edge V, diagonally reeded. I have not seen either of these.

Die states: I. Perfect die with no trace of the break above IC, A bulge develops from the joined dentils to the throat.

II. Break affecting parts of three dentils above IC,

Equivalents: Clapp-Newcomb 15. Sheldon 132. EAC 27. Encyclopedia 1712.

Low Rarity 5.

Remarks: Often banged up or even mutilated. (Breen, "Cent Collectors' Forum," Numismatist, June 1957, p. 658.)

Condition Census

MS-60 Discovered in 1973 by Jon Hanson in a small lot of coins obtained by New Netherlands Coin Co. from Zurich, Switzerland • Jon Hanson, 11/1973 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Jay Parrino (The Mint) • Gene Reale • Sotheby's (New York) '7083, 1/1998: 25 $39,600 • Jim McGuigan. State II. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

VF-30 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 157 $72.50 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill, 1946 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/15/1975 • Denis W. Loring, 6/1977 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 188 $2,750 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls. State II. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

VF-25 Sharpness of VF-35 but some encrustation and some edge dents. Harmer, Rooke Numismatists, Ltd., 11/7/1970 • C. Douglas Smith.

VF-20 Sharpness of VF-30 but several edge dents. John P. Young • M. H. Bolender #181, 9/1951: 94 $30 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Del Bland • Richard H. Wright • Valley Plaza Coins (Richard H. Wright) FPL #1, Fall 1976: 177 $600 • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries 10/1977: 789 $350.

VF-20 Dr. Charles L. Ruby, 12/1972 • Superior Stamp & Coin Co .• Superior Galleries 2/1974: 474 $875 • Dr. Calvin Ennis • Jerry Cohen • Jack H. Beymer, 4/1989 • C. Douglas Smith.

F-15 Dan Murphy, 9/1970 • John D. Wright.

F-15 Sharpness of VF-25 but edge dents and a portion of reverse edge is filed down. 1973 ANA (Jess Peters #66): 1566 $370 • William R. T. Smith, 9/1974 • Denis W. Loring, 3/1975 • Dr. Byron M. Stuart • 1977 ANA (Kagin's Numismatic Auctions '309): 269 $575 • William R. T. Smith.

F-12 Sharpness of EF-45 but four heavy obverse cuts. Dr. William H. Sheldon • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. '38): 1773 $33 • M. L. Kaplan • C. Douglas Smith • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 133 $990 • C. Douglas Smith. State II.

F-12 Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William. H. Sheldon. Basil Woolf, 3/15/1968 • John D. Wright • Gordon J. Wrubel • Ray Chatham. • Dr. Byron M. Stuart. 1977 ANA (Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #309): 270 $225 • Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr. • an unidentified eastern collector.

F-12 Sharpness of VF-35 but rough. James F. Ruddy, 5/ 1956 at the Metropolitan New York convention • Dorothy Paschal • Ed Kucia (Libertas Americana Galleries), 5/2/1980 • Frank H. Stillinger.

F-12 Del Bland • C. Douglas Smith, 2/1972 • Dr. Dane B.Nielsen, 1/1979 • Denis W. Loring, 1/1979. G. Lee Kuntz • Superior Galleries 10/1991: 148 $1B,B045 • Don Valenziano, Jr.

F-12 Richard Picker, 12/7/1964 • Jackson C. Storm, 7/31/1984 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 260 $1,430 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 188 $2,090 • Steven K. Ellsworth. State II.

F-12 Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 11/1923 • George H. Clapp • ANS • (no longer in ANS collection).