Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 1. Style I letters. Closest date with large 8.

Reverse A. Style I letters. Long heavy fraction bar ending in a point at the right. Final A is far from the ribbon-farther than any other die of the year. Top right leaf is midway between 5 and o.

Edge: Usually with reeded edge (RE) although sometimes with plain edge (PE).

Die states: I. Reverse buckled in a straight line from TA through NE to the wreath, faint on the earliest strikes. Clapp I-A.

III. Reverse cracked from the rim through left ribbon and stem to (C)E, later extending to the right foot of N(E). Buckling extends to ER. Cracked from the rim between 5 0 through the tops of OF, and to the rim above A. Mentioned by Clapp as an intermediate state.

IV. Cracked from the rim through TA; another through ES continues below OF to A. Clapp 1-Ab. In Clapp 1-Ac, the buckle "has developed into a crack which crosses the stem and passes on to top of O in ONE."

Equivalents: McGirk 23A. Clapp 1. Sheldon 144. EAC

1. Encyclopedia 1715.

Low Rarity 6.

Remarks: Discovered by Dr. Charles E. McGirk.

The reverse is quite similar to reverse P of 1797 numbers 23-24, and was probably made immediately before or after the latter, though the coins may have been struck weeks later.

Usually found in low grades, on porous Coltman planchets.

Condition Census:

EF-40 Sharpness of AU-55 but reverse corrosion. Virgil M. Brand. New Netherlands Coin Co. #41, 9/1953: 258 $420 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner, 4/2/1992. Thomas D. Reynolds. State III.

VF-35 David Proskeys Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 9 /29 /1953 • C. Douglas Smith, 10/29/1975 • Denis W. Loring, 12/25 /1977 • C. Douglas Smith. State II. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Clapp, in Early American Cents, in Penny Whimsy, and in Noyes.

VG-10 Sharpness of F-15 but porous. A. C. Gies, 2/1942 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State I.

VG-10 Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 180 $140 • C. Douglas Smith, 9/1970 • Denis W. Loring, 9/1970 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr., 10/1975 • Denis W. Loring, 10/20/1975. C. Douglas Smith, 2/28/1990 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

VG-8 Sharpness of VF-20 but finely porous. Charles A. Blood, 6/1975 • Denis W. Loring, 1975 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 206 $2,200 • Lillian Willins.

VG-8 Purchased unattributed in 2/1991 by Jonathan K. Kern, 4/1991 • Thomas D. Reynolds FPL #86, 10-11/ 1996 $9,000 • W. M. "Jack" Wadlington.

VG-8 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 178 $4.50 • Dr. William H. Sheldon – Homer K. Downing. 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1785 $50 • Willard C. Blaisdell, 1975 • Herbert A. Silberman, 11/1977 • Chuck Furjanic • Roger S. Cohen, Jr. • Superior Galleries 2/1992: 833 $7,150.