Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 2. The date is spaced with 18 and 01 farther apart than 80. The first 1 is pointed. Point of the curl is between curves of B. Top of y is high with the left foot broken away.

Reverse A.

Die states: 1. Minute traces of clash marks from leaves above the hair ribbon. RTY are normal. Reverse as number I, state VIII.

II. Die failure weakens RTY, beginning at the tops of these letters. Rust develops at LIB, behind the ribbon, and between the rim and lowest curl. At least six sets of faint clash marks from the leaves are above and below the ribbon. The reverse clash marks of number I, state VI have been polished off the die, but at least six new fainter sets have taken their place at parts of the wreath. The rim break is slightly larger. Newcomb 2-Ad.

III. Rim broken above RTY. Most of the clash marks have worn off or been polished off. Reverse dentils are weaker. Axial misalignment: weakest at end of the drapery and at OF. Apparently Newcomb had not seen this coin when he wrote his book, as he did not list this die state. Clapp called it "2b-Ad."

Equivalents: McGirk 3C2. Newcomb 2. Sheldon 214. EAC 2. Encyclopedia 1738.

High Rarity 3.

Remarks: Apparently discovered by Dr. Charles E. McGirk.

Often weak on the profile and end of drapery, lower right obverse dentils, some leaves on the right branch, s OF, and upper right border, reflecting axial misalignment of state III.

Condition Census:

MS-63 Wayte Raymond, 6/1923 • George H. Clapp • ANS • Dr. William H. Sheldon. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Newcomb and in Noyes. Obverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy.

MS-63 Some weak striking. Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 313 $110 • Barney Bluestone • Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 316 $410 • A. Kosoff • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 528 $2,000 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • Auction '81 (Paramount Rare Coin Corp.): 1052 $2,300 • Stanley Kesselman • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents.

MS-61 Some weak striking. Carl Wurtzbach • Charles Wheeler • 1976 ANA (Stack's): 353 $2,100 • William R. T. Smith • Myles Z. Gerson, 1982 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 314 $7,975. Larry Hanks (Hanks & Associates) • Kenneth Alterman • Larry Hanks (Hanks & Associates) • Fred H. Borcherdt. State II. MS-60 George W. Bowers • J. c. Morgenthau & Co. #404, 7/1939: 651 as "EF" $40. Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal.

EF-45 Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 317 $250 • Dorothy Paschal, 1977 • William R. T. Smith • Jack H. Beymer.

EF-45 Some weak striking. Dr. William H. Sheldon. ANS.

EF-40 With a large shallow low area in the central obverse. Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal, 1/1972 • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen • Del Bland, 2/ 1973 • Jeffrey Oliphant.

EF-40 Oscar J. Pearl • Numismatic Gallery FPL, 1944: 161 $45 • Charles M. Williams • Numismatic Gallery #68, 11/1950: 179 $70 • Harold Bareford, 9/13/1985 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 188 $1,100 • G. Lee Kuntz • Superior Galleries 10/1991: 236 $1,760 • Chris Victor- McCawley (CVM).

EF-40 With blunt striking. Bowers and Merena 9/1996: 32 $1,540 • Don Valenziano, Jr. • M & G Auctions 1/1997: 242 $2,090 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

VF-35 Dr. James O. Sloss, 9/1958 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • A. Kosoff 10/1959: 55 $295.

VF-35 With some very shallow planchet defects on Miss Liberty. Stuart A. Levine • Heritage Numismatic Auctions 10/1995: 5672.

VF-35 Dorothy Paschal • Denis W. Loring • William R. T. Smith.

VF-30 With a low area in the field behind the neck and some blunt striking. Sharpness of EF-40 but obverse nicks and reverse corrosion. Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929. B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 266 $50 • James G. Macallister • Henry C. Hines • Lillian Scheer, 1948 • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1875 $42.50 • C. Douglas Smith, 1971 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 1/1996: 297 $1,265. State II.

VF-30 With blunt striking. Robert W. Hallam. M & G Auctions 1/1997: 243 $1,540 • Thomas D. Reynolds FPL #88, 2-3/1997 $3,000.

VF-25 Some weak striking. C. E. Bullowa (Coinhunter), • 2/1973 • Robert E. Vail, 11/21/1988. Del Bland. Thomas D. Reynolds.

VF-25 Sharpness of EF-40 but light corrosion. Joe Flynn, Sr. Coin Co., 7/1970 as "S-215" • Robert M. Martin • Early American Coppers 4/1988: 85 $500 • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz.

VF-25 Jesse Patrick (The Patrick Mint) • Early American Coppers 4/1994: 267 $1,000 • Wes A. Rasmussen.