Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 32.

Reverse HH. Type of 1799. Right pendant of (I)T is repunched. E(D) and E(S) are wide and normally formed. First 0 is low with the fraction bar longer than usual and placed too far right, apparently slanting minutely down to the right. Minute center dot.

Edge: Plain edge (PE).

Die states: I. Reverse clash marks from dentils between ERICA and rim.

II. Reverse clash marks from drapery below ES o.

III. Faint crack from base of T to the rim opposite the neck.

IV. Branch crack joins the two cracks below TY, forming a crude triangle. Clapp 33c-FFb.

V. Cracked from the rim through the left side of y to the brow. Reverse failure beginning above ICA. Clapp 33d-FFb.

VI. Cracked from rim to the throat, later extending across the neck and hair. Reverse crack beginning at IC,

VII. The crack of state VI extends to the base of B.

Heavy clash marks on both sides. Clapp 33e-FFc.

VIII. The crack of state VII is heavier. Rim break on I(C). Rim crumbling above CA. Clapp 33e-FFd.

Equivalents: Doughty 125. Proskey 17. McGirk 10A, 10A2. Clapp 45. Sheldon 185. EAC 46. Encyclopedia 1732.

High Rarity 2.

Condition Census:

EF-45 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 199 $75 • Henry A. Sternberg, 8/1930 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl • Carl Wurtzbach • Dr. William H. Sheldon. 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Early American Coppers 4/1994: 249 $3,600 • Anthony Terranova. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

EF-40 T. James Clarke • B. Max Mehl, 4/24/1947 • R. E.Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 501 $350 Kenneth M. Goldman= Jack H. Beymer, 11/9/1974. C. Douglas Smith. State V.

EF-40 Matthew Adams Stickney • Henry Chapman 6/1907: 1512 $3.55 • Dr. J. M. Henderson • S. H. Chapman 5/1921: 266 $7 • Howard R. Newcomb • J. c. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 261 $23 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956. DorothyPaschal, 1972. Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 259 $1,650 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls. State IV.

EF-40 David Proskey • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal, 2/1972 • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen s Myles Z. Gerson - Denis W. Loring, 10/1980 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

VF-35 Sharpness of EF-45 but an obverse scratch, some nicks and a planchet defect. New Netherlands Coin Co. FPL, 9/1937 $110 • Arthur A. Wells • 1981 ANA (Bowers and Ruddy Galleries): 2736 $650 • New England Rare Coin Galleries • Mike Powell, 8/1988 • Ed Hipps (Ed Hipps Gallery) • Thomas D. Reynolds.

VF-35 Sharpness of EF-45 but the reverses is finely porous. Oscar J. Pearl • Numismatic Gallery FPL, 1944: 132 $35 • Charles M. Williams • Numismatic Gallery #68, 11/1950: 158 $25.50 • C. Douglas Smith.

VF-35 Henry C. Hines • Clayton L. Wallace • Stack's 12/1963: 507 $190 • C. Douglas Smith.

VF-30 David Proskey • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H.Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal • Eugene Exman • Roger S. Cohen, Jr. • Superior Galleries 2/1992: 880 $1,870 • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Bowers and Merena Galleries • Dr. John A. Van Arsdall • Bowers and Merena 1/1993: 228 not sold • Dr. John A. Van Arsdall • Bowers and Merena 11/1994: 2048 not sold • Dr. John A. Van Arsdall.

VF-30 Associated Coin Auction Co. 4/1956: 558 $32.50.

VF-30 Bowers and Merena 6/1996: 93 $880.

VF-30 Purchased in the latter part of the 19th century by George L. Davis • Stack's 4/1954: 1603 $25 • K. P. Austin.

VF-25 With a small planchet flake at the left obverse edge. Richard Clay, 4/21/1989 • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM) • Del Bland, 7/22/1989 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 252 $1,155 • Wes A. Rasmussen. State VI.

VF-25 Sharpness of EF-40 but abrasively cleaned and recolored with some obverse carbon spots. Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 264 $30 • George H. Clapp • ANS. Reverse illustrated in Clapp and in Noyes. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

VF-25 Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. #220, 8/1958: 294 $40 • Glen Wallace • A. Kosoff • Rare Coin Company of America 5/1974: 873 $75 • John D. Wright.

VF-25 Dr. William H. Sheldon • Homer K. Downing • Numismatic Gallery • Numismatic Gallery #76,12/1952: 593 $5 • C. Douglas Smith • Lester Merkin 10/1966: 107 $75 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

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

VF-25 Bowers and Merena 1/1990: 1095 $2,200.

VF-25 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929. B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 200 $15 • Henry A. Sternberg, 8/1930 • T. James Clarke • B. Max Mehl #113, 5/1950: 2337 $5 • unknown • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Dr. Allan S. Pirnique • Early American Coppers 5/1981: 168 $475 • John Harple.