Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

AU-55 From England • Garry Fitzgerald, 9/8/1963 in trade for a group of late-date large cents • C. Douglas Smith, 1971 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986:280 $2,420 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 178 $3,520 • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz, 12/2/1988 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 274 $6,050 • Wes A. Rasmussen. State IV.

AU-55 From an A. C. "Hance" Jaquett auction, 2/1980 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

AU-55 Allen E. McDowell • Jake Hendin, 4/1976 • Del Bland • Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr., 10/2/1981 • G. Lee Kuntz • Superior Galleries 10/1991: 221 $2,200 • Torn Morley • Superior Galleries 5/1992: 264 $1,815 • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM) • Allan Kollar.

AU-55 Judge Jos. Sawicki • Stack's 2/1954: 603 $130 • Dr. James O. Sloss, 9/1958 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr .• A. Kosoff 10/1959: 54 $380 • Dorothy Nelson • Stack's 2/1976: 52 $750 • Larry Whitlow (Ford City Coins & Stamps, Ltd.) • Auction '82 (Stack's): 25 $1,600 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls.

AU-55 Peter Mougey • William H. Woodin. Thomas L. Elder #43, 9/1910: 44 $27 • Elmer S. Sears. Malcolm N. Jackson • The United States Coin Co. 5/1913: 1254 $25 • Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 283 $90 • James Kelly • Standish Hall • Hollinbeck Stamp and Coin Co. FPL #25, 1947: 24 $100 • unknown • Julian Leidman • Robert Emmer (Penn State Galleries), 8/13/1973 • Dr. Peter G. Anderson. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

AU-55 John G. Mills • S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1904: 1259 $31 • Carl Wurtzbach • Virgil M. Brand • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Wayte Raymond • New Netherlands Coin Co. #41, 9/1953: 274 $105 • Dorothy Paschal.

Obverse 8. LIBERTY close and evenly spaced. Numerals are well spaced but lean right. Usually identified by the slivers of state II.

Reverse K. Spiny serif to c(E), as on reverse A above, several 1798 reverse dies, and the next few. The fraction bar slants down to the right. Crumbling within the right top of O(F).

Edge: Plain edge (PE).

Die states: I. "Perfect dies." A faint bulge is beginning in the lower right obverse field. Faint obverse clash marks are visible. Very rare.

II. Slivers point down to the right, between L and the hair, in the upper hair, and in the right field opposite the neck and bosom.

III. Bulge from end of the drapery into the right field near the border. Clash marks from dentils below the date and from leaves before the neck and behind the head.

IV. Bulges develop before the face and behind the low curls. Obverse crack from the rim below 1 to base of the first O.

V. Cracked through bases of 18.

VI. Bulge right of Y with another at, and behind, the curls to the field behind the ribbon.

VII. Heavy clash marks at the date and above UBERTY. Bulge develops above 180. Chips or rust spots below the first O. Faint cracks from the rim to the head just above the ribbon.

VIII. Bulge at 180 is severe. Chips or rust spots at the crack below (8)0. Irregular crack through ES with rust near n and s,

Equivalents: McGirk 4L. Clapp-Newcomb 24. Sheldon 211. EAC 23. Encyclopedia 1737.

Low Rarity 3.

Remarks: Apparently discovered by Dr. McGirk.

In worn condition, early die states are often mistaken for early states of the next.

This begins a group with leftover 1798 reverse dies showing the C(E) punch broken at its serif.

Usually on broad planchets. The obverse rim is normally bolder than on the other broad flan varieties 14-16.

EF-45 Dr. William H. Sheldon • T. James Clarke • A. Kosoff 4/1956: 70 $280 • Dorothy Nelson • Stack's 2/1976: 54 $600 • Stack's • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Bertram Cohen, 8/10/1985 • Frank H. Stillinger.

VF-35 Struck off center. R. L. Miles, Jr. • Stack's 4/1969: 102 $230 • unknown • Michael R. Kirzner • Denis W. Loring • Eugene Exman.

VF-35 Charles Morris. S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1905: 790 $8.50 • unknown • Oscar J. Pearl • Numismatic Gallery FPL, 1944: 145 as "0-148" $35 • Homer K. Downing • 1948 ANA (Frank J. Katen, Milford Coin & Stamp Co. #8): 1008 as "D-145" $13 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Denis W. Loring, 1978 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 310 $990 • John Sype, 4/1991 • James H. Goudge, 6/1991 • Don Valenziano, Jr. State VI.

VF-30 Purchased in the late 1930s from James G. Macallister by S. W. Freeman • Abner Kreisberg and Hans M. F. Schulman 5/1958: 1139 $320 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 525 $325 • Garry Fitzgerald • Harold W. Cuddy, Sr., 2/26/1978. Richard Mozdziesz.

VF-30 Sharpness of EF-40 but surfaces not perfectly smooth and a reverse edge cut. Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 7/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS.

VF-25 Raymond Gallo, 10/1960 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr .• A. Kosoff 10/1961: 242 $35 • George Ramont.

VF-25 Ralph R. Barker • S. H. & H. Chapman 7/1904: 999 $4.50 • unknown •James G. Macallister, 1936 • Charles H. Deetz • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal, 11/1977 • William R. T. Smith, 7/1978 • Fred H. Borcherdt .

VF-25 Henry C. Hines • Homer K. Downing. 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1868 $24 • C. Douglas Smith, 1971 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 309 $687.50. State III.

VF-25 From an old collection purchased by Collectors Corner (New Haven, Connecticut)