Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Condition Census:

MS-60 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929. B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 196 $90 • Henry A. Sternberg, 8/1930 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Anthony Terranova • Thomas D. Reynolds. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

MS-60 B. Max Mehl, 11/1922 • George H. Clapp • ANS • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal. Dr. Dane B. Nielsen • Myles Z. Gerson.

MS-60 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 205 $95 • James Kelly • Celina Coin Co. #21, 3/1947: 2042 • James Kelly • James Kelly 4/1948: 1328 $46 • Hollinbeck Stamp and Coin Co. #90, 10/1950: 1847 $105 • Hollinbeck Stamp and Coin Co. • Hollinbeck Coin Co. #160, 7/1953: 872 $91 • C. Douglas Smith. State III. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Clapp. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents.

AU-50 Reeded Edge. Col. E. H. R. Green • B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.), 8/27/1942 $20 • James G. Macallister, 10/6/1942 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal, 1972 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 222 $3,740 • C. Douglas Smith. State I. Obverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-50 Dorothy Paschal • New Netherlands Coin Co. #50, 12/1957: 1080 $130 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 472 $650 • Del Bland, 11/1973 • Jeffrey Oliphant. Obverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy. Reverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-50 Stack's FPL, 5/1976 $1,550 • Auction '82 (Stack's): 24 $1,800 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

AU-50 Byron Reed, 1891 • City of Omaha • Spink America #8452, 10/1996: 243 $11,000 • John B. MacDonald, 3/1997 • Dr. Eugene Sherman.

AU-50 Bluntly struck. Wayte Raymond • New Netherlands Coin Co. #41, 9/1953: 262 $57.50 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William. H. Sheldon, 10/15/1953 • C. Douglas Smith.

EF-45 Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 7/1924. George H. Clapp • ANS • (no longer in ANS collection). State II.

EF-45 With shallow planchet defects on obverse and reverse. Sidney W. Smith, circa 1970 • Calvin Belote, 3/1972 • Frank Duvall.

EF-45 Charles M. Williams. Numismatic Gallery #68, 11/1950: 144 $21.

EF-45 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 195 $65 • Henry A. Sternberg, 8/1930 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl.

Obverse 14. Back curls are delicate with an incomplete shoulder loop. RTY are apart with R high and y low.

Reverse M.

Edge: Plain edge (PE), double-flange edge (DFE), and Single-flange edge (SFE). The latter is seen on the latest die states.

Die states: I. Obverse perfect. Reverse has a faint crack through the tops of UNIT. Clapp 16-M.

II. Cracked from the rim to (I)T, leaf, leaf tip, through AT, and to the rim.

III. Cracked from the single leaf tip to E(S) and to the rim. Another crack from the tops of CA to bases of 100. The crack of state I now extends from the ribbon through the tops of UNITED. Multiple clash marks (at least eight sets) near the left stem. Clapp 16-Mb.

IV. Three long nearly vertical cracks in the left obverse field, at first very faint. Clapp 16b-Mb.

V. Reverse rim break on IT.

VI. Rim break on ITED. Cracked from the rim to final s. Clapp 16b-Mc.

Equivalents: Doughty 126. Proskey 18. McGirk 13A. Clapp 18. Sheldon 158. EAC 18. Encyclopedia 1725.

Rarity 4.

Remarks: That any are on SFE blanks suggests that this group of varieties (numbers 16-19) may have come later, with numbers 36, and 39-40 (the latter following the 1799 overdates).