Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Group III. 13

Obverse 7. The date is evenly curved with blunt Is. LIB are close and BE are apart with the E lower and leaning left with its right base above R. Left base of y is broken. Point of curl is below the right side of upright of B.

Reverse I. The numerator is high and the long fraction bar does not cover 1 or the final O. The denominator is spaced 1 00 (the 1 and 0 are very far apart). Point of highest leaf is below the center of (E)S. Bases of ED are successively higher above the adjacent T. Right top of E(R) is repunched. Left base of (N)T is elongated.

Die states: I. Obverse has light clash marks from leaves near the ribbon and below the chin. Reverse has faint triple clash marks from the drapery near TES OF, one of the three sets displaced from the others by rotation. Newcomb 10-H.

II. Additional clash marks ground away: weak at the face, end of the drapery, and the right border. Reverse has at least six sets of clash marks from the profile at E RICA. Rim break above AME, touching M. McGirk 3G.

III. Reverse rim is just beginning to crumble on five dentils right of F.

IV. Cracked from the rim above 0 to the left top of F. Newcomb 10-Hb.

V. Rim break right of F. Newcomb 10-Hc.

Equivalents: Proskey 8. Doughty 163. McGirk 3E, 3F, 3G. Newcomb 12. Sheldon 224. EAC 12. Encyclopedia 1741.

Rarity I.

Remarks: This is the commonest variety of the year, but is usually found in grades below BF.

A die state with at least six sets of clash marks may exist between our states I and II. Possibly preceded the sequence of 5-12; placed here for considerations of style.

Condition Census:

AU-55 Peter Mougey • William H. Woodin • Thomas L. Elder #43, 9/1910: 45 $36 • S. H. Chapman • Allison W. Jackman. Henry Chapman 6/1918: 715 $77 • Wayte Raymond (The United States Coin Co.) • Virgil M. Brand • 1948 ANA (Frank J. Katen, Milford Coin & Stamp Co., #8): 1009 $23 • C. Douglas Smith • William R. T. Smith. Gene Reale • Bowers and Merena 8/1995:

15 not sold • Gene Reale. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy.

AU-55 M. A. Brown • S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1897: 788 $22.50 • Ed. Frossard • Hillyer Ryder, 5/1945 • Wayte Raymond, 1947 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/ 1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner. State 1. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Noyes.

AU-50 Richard B. Winsor • S. H. & H. Chapman 12/1895: 869 $22 • Dr. Thomas Hall, 9/7/1909 • Virgil M. Brand • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 6/10/1952 • Harold Bareford, 9/13/1985 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 198 $2,090.

EF-45 Sharpness of AU-55 but light obverse scratches and light reverse burnishing. Henry Chapman • Henry Chapman 6/1909: 758 $25 • J. W. Scott & Co., Ltd. • Henry C. Hines • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1893 $60 • A. Kosoff • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 538 $500 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 332 $990 • Walter Dudgeon • Bowers and Merena 1/1994: 2025 $880. State 1.

EF-40 Charles R. Mathewson, 1955 • Copley Coin Co. • Lucius S. Ruder • Stack's 9/1987: 379 $132 • James Neiswinter.

EF-40 Consignment Pennsylvania • Stack's 9/1964: 56 $190.

EF-40 Sharpness of MS-60 but burnished. Rodney T. Grove. Robert Nofal and Lewis Kling • Cape Kennedy Medals 7/1976: 28 $750 • Joe Stuller.

EF-40 Federal Coin Exchange 10/1956: 17 $52.50.

VF-35 With some light striking on hair on top of the head, on ribbon, and on lower wreath. Early Copper Auction #3, 9/1991: 61 $990 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr .• Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 314 $1,320.

VF-35 Sharpness of EF-45 but small carbon spots; cleaned and recolored. Peter Mougey • William H. Woodin. Thomas L. Elder #43, 9/1910: 46 $25 • Albert F. Holden, 1913 • Mrs. R. Henry Norweb • Bowers and Merena 11/1988: 2800 $687.50 • Anthony Terranova • Stack's, 2/1991 • Frank H. Stillinger.

VF-35 George M. Parsons • Henry Chapman 6/1914: 1810 $7 • Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co . #458, 2/1945: 334 $26 • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #461, 5/ 1945: 334 $26 • James G. Macallister • Charles Green (R. Green), 5/1946 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State 1. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Newcomb.

VF-35 Purchased unattributed in 8/1984 at the ANA convention by Denis W. Loring, 8/25/1984. Richard V. Punchard • Wes A. Rasmussen.

VF-35 Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM), 10/13/1991 • Gary Ruttenberg • M & G Auctions 8/1996: 213 $1,540 • W. M. "Jack" Wadlington.

VF-35 Foster Lardner • The United States Coin Co. 11/1914: 44 $5.10 • unknown • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 10/1959 • A. C. "Hance" Jaquett, 1983 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

VF-35 Sharpness of EF-45 but some minute porosity; dark olive. Allan Kollar, 10/1989 • G. Lee Kuntz • Superior Galleries 10/1991: 246 $550 • John R. Frankenfield.

VF-35 Bowers and Ruddy Galleries FPL #39, 7/1981 $695.

VF-35 William Beaver Chamberlin • Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd. 8/1987: 12 $1,200.