Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 7. Widest date of the year with 1 farthest from the device. Point of curl below center of B. Broken Y.

Reverse F. Type of 1799; perfectly formed NS and TS, which may have been reworked. largest berries of the year.

Die scratch at right end of the fraction bar. Defect at right side of both ribbons, minutely above top of the numerator.

Die states: I. Perfect dies. Very rare. Newcomb 11-I. II. Reverse has a faint crack through the tops of UNITED.

Faint crack on obverse through tops of IB. Light clash marks from the fraction at LIBERTY.

III. Arc crack from B down through ERT to below the center of Y. Reverse arc crack from rim through N, lowest left leaves, base of bows just above the knot, and right stem.

Another crack from the rim to the right upright of M and to a leaf. Newcomb 11b-Ib.

IV. Obverse has at least seven sets of jumbled clash marks below the knot, right of the face, and at BERTY.

The crack of state III now plainly joins that of state II at IB.

Reverse crack of state ill extends from the right stem through base of I and between IC to the rim. Cracked from the rim to left the top of (S)T. Newcomb 11b-Ic.

V. Obverse clash marks are fading. Reverse cracked from the upper leaves through (N)E and (E)N to the bow, joining the arc crack of state III. Newcomb 11b-Id.

VI. Reverse cracked from the rim through right side of (E)S, extending through wreath to join the crack of state V. Newcomb 11b-Id.

VII. Obverse arc crack is heavy. Reverse cracked from the rim through c(A) to a leaf. The crack of state IV extends through base of (S)T to the leaf below A. "Newcomb 11b-If." (So numbered on the Clapp box and discovered after publication of the Newcomb book.)

VIII. Cracked from the base of (N)E down right of (N)T to the adjacent berry. "Newcomb 11b-Ig." (Same comment as above).

IX. Heavy reverse rim break above STAT. (Penny Whimsy, p. 340, described from the Warfield coin (lot 343), illustrated here.)

Equivalents: Proskey 7. Doughty 170. McGirk SA, 5B, 13A, 13A2. Ross 5-G. Newcomb 15. Sheldon 237. EAC 15. Encyclopedia 1750.

Rarity 2.

Condition Census:

MS-63 Jon Hanson, 10/11/1974 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Allan Kollar.

MS-62 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 377 $55 • Milton A. Holmes • Stack's 10/1960: 1427 $775 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 553 $3,400 • Rare Coin Company of America • Dennis Forgue • Thomas E. Werner, 8/1984 • Denis W. Loring, 2/7/1985 • C. Douglas Smith. State III. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

MS-61 J. P. Hale Jenkins • Henry Chapman 7/1922: 1613 $6.50 • Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 7/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State VI.

MS-60 William F. Brown • Henry Chapman 1/1915: 320 $10 • Henry Chapman • Dr. George P. French, 3/ 21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 280 $50 • Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 379 $33 • James G. Macallister • Charles Green (R. Green), 12/ 17/1949 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • Myles Z. Gerson • Kenneth M. Goldman 8/5/1998 • Thomas D. Reynolds. Obverse illustrated in Newcomb.

AU-55 Julius L. Brown • S. H. Chapman 5/1911: 938 $16 • Henry C. Hines • unknown • Nethercutt Chemical Co. • 1967 ANA (Paramount International Coin Corp.): 2133 $396 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Stack's 12/1969: 469 $385 • unknown • Pine Tree Auction Galleries 1/1979: 139 $1,100. Reverse illustrated in Newcomb.

AU-55 Virgil M. Brand • Barney Bluestone, 1/1938 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State V.

AU-50 Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 394 $70 • C. Douglas Smith, 1/27/1956 • Dorothy Paschal. Del Bland • Myles Z. Gerson • Del Bland. William R. Hall • Del Bland • Harlan Berk • Del Bland • Julian Leidman • C. Douglas Smith • Del Bland • Max Draisner • Del Bland • Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr. • Donald H. Petersen. Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM).

AU-50 Willard C. Blaisdell • Del Bland • Bertram Cohen, 8/24/1990 • Del Bland • Shawn Fletcher.

AU-50 Wade Hinderling, 5/2/1985 • Jack H. Beymer.

AU-50 Superior Galleries 2/1991: 741 $1,210 • Jack H. Beymer.

AU-50 With a small planchet clip. Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp • ANS. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents.

AU-50 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 279 $22.50 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl. Obverse illustrated in Newcomb.