Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 29. Always with the horizontal crack below the ribbon and the crack from rim to end of the drapery, as in number 41, state III. Date is normal, not weak as on the preceding.

Reverse FF. Type of 1797, Style II letters. "Large Fraction:" large 100 overpunched on shorter numerals, crowded between the ribbons. Six berries left and five right. ONE is too far left, the 0 almost touches a leaf, and the top of N is high. Irregularly spaced legend: IT lean right, TED are well apart, TAT are still farther apart, and ES are high, leaning right

Edge: Plain edge (PE).

Die states: I. As number 41 state ill, but a crack extends through the tops of LIBER. On worn examples, tops of USER blur into the rim and the crack may not be visible. Clapp 30c-DD.

II. The crack from rim to drapery now extends across the drapery and hair to the left rim. The horizontal crack, of number 41 state I, extends to the round back curl. New faint cracks: from the rim to upper ribbon end, from the rim to lower ribbon end, from the base of T to highest wave of hair, from y to forelock, and from the rim to tip of the nose. Rim break above L, at first very small, in later states extending above us. Clapp 30d-DD.

III. Curved crack from the rim right of 8, through the drapery, and back to the rim. Clapp 30e-DD.

IV. Rim break joins the drapery right of 8.

Equivalents: Doughty 136. Proskey 28. McGirk 21A- 21e. Clapp 41. Sheldon 181. EAC 42. Encyclopedia 1730.

Rarity 3.

Remarks: The large 1 and 0 punches in the fraction occur nowhere else in the series, nor are they yet identified on any other denomination.

Condition Census:

MS-63 J. Coolidge Hills • Lyman H. Low #211, 12/ 1923: 360 $67.50 • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Shel-don, 4/19 /1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 497 $3,000 • Dr. Philip Horowitz • Robert Rose (Renrob Coins) • Del Bland • C. Douglas Smith • Dr. Philip W. Ralls. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy. Obverse illustrated in Noyes. Hines once won a prize with this coin for an ANA exhibit entitled "Most Perfect Early Cent. II

MS-62 M. A. Brown • S. H & H. Chapman 4/1897: 779 $13 • George H. Earle, Jr. • Henry Chapman 6/1912: 3409 $16 • S. H. Chapman • Allison W. Jackman. Henry Chapman 6/1918: 711 $65 • Dr. Henry W. Beckwith • S. H. Chapman 4/1923: 16 $77.50. Elmer S. Sears • Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 256 $90 • T. James Clarke, 12/1954 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Jay Parrino (The Mint), 4/16/1996 • W. M. "Jack" Wadlington. State II. Reverse illustrated in Clapp. Obverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-55 Richard B. Winsor • S. H. & H. Chapman 12/1895: 861 $9 • Ed. Frossard • Dr. George Hetrich • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries 1/1982: 320 $950 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls. State IV.

AU-55 With two small planchet chips on obverse. Purchased unattributed on 10/30/1983 in Germany by Darwin B. Palmer, Jr., 3/15/1986 • C. Douglas Smith.

EF-45Charles E.Clapp, Sr., 3/1921. George H. Clapp • ANS. State II. Obverse illustrated in Clapp.

EF-40 Frank H. Masters, Jr. • Rare Coin Company of America 5/1971: 121 $135 William R. T. Smith, 8/1974 John D. Wright.

EF-40 Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 257 $175 • Dorothy Paschal, 5/1977 • Denis W. Loring, 1/1980 • Myles Z. Gerson, 1981 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 254 $2,860. State III.

EF-40 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 257 $25.

VF-35 Gordon J. Wrubel. Dr. Al1an S. Pirnique • Early American Coppers 5/1981: 164 $825 • Alan J. Prescott.

VF-30 Robert J. Kissner • Stack's 6/1975: 318 $200 • Myles Z. Gerson • Denis W. Loring, 1/1980 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

VF-30 Dr. George R. Ross • Thomas L. Elder 5/1937: 639 $9 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal.

VF-25 Henry C. Hines • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1835 $21 • C. Douglas Smith • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 164 $1,100 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

VF-25 Bruno Crossfield, 12/1956 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Del Bland • Richard H. Wright • Valley Plaza Coins (Richard H. Wright) FPL #1, Fall 1976: 259 $180 • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries 10/1977: 827 $80.

VF-25 William K. Raymond • Donald Frederick • Or. Robert J. Shalowitz • Darwin B. Palmer, Jr. • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 248 $1,870 • Wes A. Rasmussen. State III.

VF-25 Bill Grayson, 11/1983 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

VF-25 Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 7/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS.