Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Small 8

Henceforth Unless Otherwise Noted

Obverse 6. Widest date of the year; widest LIBERTY except possibly for obverse 13 of number 16 below.

Reverse H. Type of 1795. Single terminal leaves. No berry right of bow; paired berries below ER. Same as 1796 reverse F (numbers 8-10).

Edge: Plain edge (PE) and double-flange edge (DFE).

Clapp states this is also known with reeded edge (RE), although this has not been seen.

Die states: 1. Reverse rust pits between u and stem. Crack slants up from N(E). Clapp 11-Jb.

II. Faint crack from rim through center of L. Clapp 11b-Jb.

III. Obverse cracked from the rim through 7 to the device.

IV. Cracked through top of 7 grazing the top of 9. Another from the rim through 8 to the drapery. Reverse has at least seven sets of clash marks. Clapp 11c-Jb.

V. Small lump between drapery folds. Bulges behind knot, at and above drapery. The crack of state III now extends into the hair. Reverse buckling at S O.

VI. Cracks extended. That of state II now continues through the bases of IB. Multiple lumps in drapery right of 8. Extensive reverse rust. At least nine sets of clashmarks.

Equivalents: Doughty 110. McGirk 1A. Clapp 13. Sheldon 155. EAC 9. Encyclopedia 1720.

Rarity 3.

Remarks: The double flanged edge coins suggest that some of this variety may have followed the next few; certainty is not yet possible.

Condition Census:

MS-63 Joseph J. Mickley, 4/30/1867 • W. Elliot Woodward • W. Elliot Woodward, 10th Semi-Annual Sale, 10/1867: 1972 $17 • Richard B. Winsor • S. H. & H. Chapman 12/1895: 856 $51 • George H. Earle, Jr. • Henry Chapman 6/1912: 3407 $35 • Dr. Henry W. Beckwith • S. H. Chapman 4/1923: 13 $125 • Elmer S. Sears • Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 200$290 • T. James Clarke • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/ 23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Jay Parrino (The Mint). Obverse and reverse illustrated in Clapp and in Noyes. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy. Henry Hines once offered to trade Newcomb his finest known 1799 AU-50 coin for this coin; Newcomb declined the trade.

MS-60 Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 199 $300 • A.Kosoff • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 471 $2,200 • Del Bland • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

AU-55 Empire Coin Co. • Dorothy Paschal, 9/24/1973 • C. Douglas Smith. State VI.

AU-50 National Museum of Sweden, early 1960's • unknown • Robert W. Hallam.

EF-45 Elmer S. Sears, 6/1926 • George H. Oapp • ANS • Dr. William H. Sheldon • T. James Oarke • A. Kosoff 4/1956: 53 $250 • Dorothy Nelson • Stack's 2/1976: 41 $800 • Myles Z. Gerson, 1/10/1981 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 220 $4,400. State V.

EF-45 Donald W. Martz • George Ramont, 5/1996 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

EF-40 Lee Hewitt - Coll. Rare Coin Co. 5/1965: 20. John D. Wright.

EF-40 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 176 $150 • Henry A. Sternberg, 8/1930 • T. James Clarke • B. Max Mehl #106, 6/1945: 1665 $40.

EF-40 Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. • A. Kosoff 10/1961: 177 $520 • Stack's.

VF-35 Barney Bluestone #102, 7/1948: 868 $17.25 •Willard C. Blaisdell, 2/1975 • Gordon J. Wrubel, 3/1975 • Jeffrey Oliphant.

VF-35 Floyd T. Starr • Stack's 6/1984: 28 $522.50 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

VF-35 Thomas L. Elder, 6/26/1936 • Judge Thomas L.Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/ 1956 • Dorothy Paschal • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 217 $5,500 • March Wells, Jr. State IV: