Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 32. LIBERTY is widely spaced with m farther apart, even than on obverse 30, with base of I below B and junction of the forelock and brow slightly left of the right upright of T. Small 7. Lower 9 than on two preceding obverses. Chip in the field just before the neck. Usually identified by the tiny chips at serif of 7 of state II.

Reverse GG.

Edge: Plain edge (PE).

Die states: I. Perfect obverse, without chips at RT or at serif of 7. The reverse has fourfold clash marks as before. Extremely rare. Clapp 33-EE.

II. Many minute chips between RT and forelock. Three tiny chips at serif of 7, at first faint.

III. Narrow rim break above F A, although centering does not always allow this to show. Very faint diagonal die flaw before the face, which fades out. Additional die chips before the neck and behind the head. Clapp 33b-EE.

IV. At least four sets of blurry obverse clash marks near the ribbon and before the throat. Reverse has heavy clash marks, displaced by rotation: from the bust below TES, from the profile between leaves and ICA, and from the letters below the fraction and right.

Equivalents: Doughty 124. Proskey 16. McGirk 7 A. Clapp 44. Sheldon 184. EAC 45. Encyclopedia 1732.

Low Rarity 2.

Remarks: Clapp mentions one with a double profile.

Condition Census:

MS-63 Col. James W. Ellsworth, 3/1923 • Wayte Raymond, 3/1923 • Wayte Raymond, 3/1923. George H. Clapp • ANS • Dr. William H. Sheldon. Reverse illustrated in Clapp. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Early American Cents, in Penny Whimsy, and in Noyes.

MS-60 Richard B. Winsor • S. H. & H. Chapman 12/1895: 860 $13 • Arba Borden.

MS-60 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 260 $42.50 • James Kelly.

AU-55 Lorin G. Parmelee • New York Coin & Stamp Co. 6/1890: 766 $11 • Harlan P. Smith • John G. Mills • S.H. & H. Chapman 4/1904: 1257a $14. George Anders • unknown • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal • Mulford B. Simons, Jr. (Penn Valley Coin Shoppe) • Eastern Coin Exchange • 1977 ANA (Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #309): 280 $1,900 • Myles Z. Gerson • David Berg • Kenneth M. Goldman • George Szykier • Anthony Terranova • Herman Halpern, 2/14/1987 • C. Douglas Smith.

AU-55 B. C. Bartlett • Thomas L. Elder 1/1918: 993 $14 • Foster Lardner • B. Max Mehl #81, 6/1930: 59 $22.50 • B. Max Mehl Collection • T. James Clarke, 10/ 1954 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 500 $750 • Myles Z. Gerson • Jerry A. Bobbe • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz.

AU-55 A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd. (London), 1946 • Willard C. Blaisdell, 5/11/1971 • Del Bland, 1972 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 257 $1,870 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls. State IV.

AU-55 1964 ANA (Federal Brand Enterprises): 70 $1,150 • unknown • Stuart A. Levine, 4/3/1992 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

AU-50 Col. E. H. R. Creen • B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.) • Eric P. Newman, 7/16/1985 • Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Foundation.

AU-50 Gordon J. Wrubel, 11/1983 • Denis W. Loring, 11/1983. Thomas D. Reynolds.

AU-50 Fred Sweeney Rare Coins FPL #100, 10/1976 $1500 • Gordon J. Wrubel • C. Douglas Smith • Del Bland • Jeffrey Oliphant.

AU-50 Ray Byrne (Pittsburgh) • Abner Kreisberg Corp. • Del Bland. Jack H. Beymer. Jean Robidoux • New England Rare Coin Auctions 11/1979: 32 $1,550.

AU-50 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 197 $85 • Henry A. Sternberg, 8/1930 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl • B. Max Mehl #106, 6/1945: 1667 $30.

AU-50 M. A. Brown • S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1897: 781 $17 • S. H. & H. Chapman.

AU-50 E. A. Rice • Thos. P. Warfield • Associated Coin Auction Co. 10/1955: 293 $48 • C. Douglas Smith.