Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 4. Medium evenly spaced date: broken B. No curl point near B. Top of 1 and corner of 7 touch the device. Heavy triangular field chip before the throat.

Reverse B. Regular type (16 leaves on the left branch and 19 right with a double right terminal leaf) from now on. Small fraction. The lowest outer right leaf is fragmented.

Edge: Beaded (II) or plain (III or IV).

Die states: I. Clash marks from OF below the drapery. Rust pits and radial roughness in the right obverse field. Faint bulge behind the lowest curls. Reverse rust at the fraction and at MERlC. McGirk 3A.

II. Cracked from the rim through (M)E to leaf. McGirk3B.

III. Faint crack through 97. Rust right of date. Bulge advances behind the lowest curls and extends below 9.

IV. Reverse has a second crack from the rim to (M)E. All bulges are advanced.

V. A piece has fallen out of the die between the two cracks at ME. The letters NE and the adjacent wreath are obliterated by a bulge. Usually seen weakly struck at the left obverse and left reverse, probably the result of axially mis-aligned dies.

Equivalents: Proskey 4. Doughty 95. McGirk 3A, 3B. Clapp-Newcomb 17. Sheldon 134. EAC 4.

Encyclopedia 1704.

High Rarity 3.

Remarks: The discovery of the two edges on this variety is too recent to permit accurate estimates of rarity. The condition census listed below may contain examples with either edge. Edges must be rechecked.

Condition Census

AU-50 Weakly struck on the left obverse and left reverse. Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. #267, 11/1966: 22 • Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. • Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. #278, 6/1968: 429 $885 • Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. • Art Kagin, 10/6/1989. Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM) • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Dr. Philip W. Ralls, 11/1990 • G. Lee Kuntz • Superior Galleries 10/1991: 150 $6,050.

EF-45 Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1775 $115 • A. Kosoff • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner, 4/7/1992 • C. Douglas Smith. State III. Reverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy.

EF-45 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 153 $100 • Henry A. Sternberg, 8/1930 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl • B. Max Mehl #106, 6/1945: 1662 $42.50 • Sheraton Coin Co., 1945 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 450 $300 • Melvin L. Robinson • William Peterson (Cincinnati Coin Exchange). Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

EF-45 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 161 $25.

EF-40 C. H. Stearns • Milyflower Coin Auctions 12/1966: 322 $47.50 • Ted Kress • Dr. Peter G. Anderson, 4/14/1989 • C. Douglas Smith. Reverse illustrated in Noyes.

VF-35 Sharpness of EF-45 but some light porosity, an area of the obverse burnished and a long reverse scratch. David Proskey • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal, 3/18/1973 • Elwood Rindahl • Rick Raimo • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 5/2/1981 • C. Douglas Smith, 4/22/1992 • Eric Streiner • Superior Galleries 10/1992: 83 $1,155 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

VF-35 From England • John Uhlir • David Henderson (Whittier Coins), 5/13/1987 • Douglas F. Bird • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

VF-35 Roy Rauch, 8/22/1985 • Denis W. Loring • Dr. Philip W. Ralls, 4/1992 • Mark Emtman.

VF-35 With a small planchet clip. Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp • ANS. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Clapp-Newcomb, in Early American Cents, and in Noyes.

VF-35 Malcolm O. E. Chell-Frost • Norman T. Waitt. VF-30 Sharpness of EF-40 but burnished. James G. Macallister • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #454, 1/1944: 421 $26 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal. C. Douglas Smith, 3/30/1992 • Eric Streiner • Superior Galleries 10/1992: 84 $1,540 • Larry Briggs Rare Coins, 9/24/1993 • Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr.

VF-30 Sharpness of EF-40 but corrosion spot removed from obverse. Jim McGuigan, 5/1980 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

VF-30 Jamestown Rare Coins, 3/4/1982 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 265 $1,540 • John Sype. State IV. Beaded Edge.

VF-30 Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 7/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS. Obverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy.

VF-30 Weakly struck on the left obverse and left reverse. Harry DeVore • Russell Wyatt • Superior Galleries 9/ 1985: 244 $742.50.

VF-30 Stephen Fischer, 7/1996 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

VF-30 Weakly struck on the left reverse. Eugene Exman • Dorothy Paschal, 1977 • Denis W. Loring.