Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 1. In the date, 1 touches the hair above. Spacing of LIBERTY increases from left to right. R and T are unusually far apart, while T and Y lean left and are successively below R at their bases.

Reverse A. Die scratch extends from left end of the fraction bar almost to the left ribbon. Point of the highest leaf is between s o. All NS show repunching on the lower side of the diagonal. E(S) is above adjacent T and leans right; final s is higher still and tilts crazily to the right.

Die states: I. Perfect dies without clashed dentils right of the date. Extremely rare.

II. At least four partly blurred lines of clash marks from dentils in the field right of the date. Reverse has rotated clash marks from the drapery right of the top of (E)S.

III. Cracks through tops of UN and from base of the final 5 through OF. Obverse has at least six extra sets of clash marks near the ribbon and below the chin. Additional clashed dentils right of date. Several additional clash marks from the drapery near ES OF. Newcomb 1-Ab.

IV. Narrow rim break below 802. Centering or imperfect striking at the lower border may prevent this from showing. Newcomb 1b-Ab.

V. Rim crumbling before the throat. Rim break is heavier, extending beyond the base of 2. Most of the clashed dentils right of the date have been polished off the die. The shoulder loop is weak.

VI. Second reverse crack of state III is continuous from border over T(E), through ES, base of 0, and upper left serif of F, with the entire area above a retained cud.

VII. Immense rim break obliterates most of E(S), all of final S, almost all of 0, and covers almost all the space between S O. Extremely rare. Discovered in 1957.

Equivalents: Proskey 9. Doughty 172. McGirk 11A, 11B, 11C. 11D. Ross 7-1. Newcomb 1. Sheldon 225. EAC

1. Encyclopedia 1750.

Rarity 2.

Remarks: Often found on rough planchets with considerable mottling: these may have been affected by salt spray or bilgewater enroute from England. Similar blanks occur on number 6.

The Hesslein-ANS state II coin has a double profile.

Others have been reported.

Condition Census:

MS-63 John G. Mills • S. H. & H. Chapman 4/1904: 1262 $8 • George Anders • Elmer S. Sears, 1/1927 • George H. Clapp • ANS. State III. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy.

MS-61 L. P. Jones • Thomas L. Elder 6/1922: 573 • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Dennis Mendelson • Thomas D. Reynolds. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

MS-61 W. W. C. Wilson • Wayte Raymond for The Anderson Galleries #1996, 11/1925: 215 $29 • Carl Wurtzbach • Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 345 $210 • A. Kosoff • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 539 $1,100 • Del Bland • Jeffrey Oliphant.

MS-61 Henry C. Hines • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1894 $110 • C. Douglas Smith, 4/1958 • Louis Helfenstein • Lester Merkin 8/1964: 24 $1,600 • C. Douglas Smith • Garry Fitzgerald. C. Douglas Smith • Jerry A. Bobbe • C. Douglas Smith, 3/1986 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 200 $4,950 • Andrew M. Hain.

MS-60 Allison W. Jackman • Henry Chapman 6/1918: 717 $24 • S. H. Chapman • F. G. Simpson • S. H. Chapman 6/1924: 27 $21 • unknown • Isadore Herman • Lester Merkin 9/1974: 281 $4,200 • Dr. M. Lamar Hicks • Stack's 3/1986: 837 $8,250 • C. Douglas Smith. State II.

MS-60 Henry L. Jewett • S. H. Chapman 6/1909: 1671 $12.25 • Howard R. Newcomb • J.C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 336 $80 • Floyd T. Starr • Stack's 6/1984: 38 $2,420 • Dr. Allen Bennett • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23 /1992 • Eric Streiner. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Newcomb.

MS-60 Ed Hipps (Ed Hipps Gallery), 1/1988 • a collector.

MS-60 An American collection • Glendining & Co., Ltd. (London) 12/1965: 640.

MS-60 Lewis C. Gehring • Thomas L. Elder 8/1921: 905 $19.95.

AU-55 Sharpness of Mint State but cleaned and nicely retoned. Richard Picker, 12/7/1960 • C. Douglas Smith, 1/19/1974. Del Bland, 1/1979 • G. Lee Kuntz • Superior Galleries 10/1991: 248 $1,815 • Gary Ruttenberg • M & G Auctions 8/1996: 215 $1,870 • Walter Husak.

AU-55 New Netherlands Coin Co. • New Netherlands Coin Co. #48, 11/1956: 824 $57.50 • Robert J. Kissner. Stack's 6/1975: 342 $525 • Steve Ivy Rare Coin Co. • AAA Coins.

AU-55 John E. Burton. W. Elliot Woodward #42, 10/ 1881: 170 • George W. Cogan • C. F. Frothingham • H. G. Sampson 5/1883: 79 • James B. Wilson • Thomas L. Elder #21, 10/1908: 1011 $5 • Henry Chapman • Albert F. Holden, 1913 • Mrs. R. Henry Norweb • Bowers and Merena 11/1988: 2802 $3,740 • James U. Blanchard & Co. • Anthony Terranova • Chris Vietor-McCawley (CVM) 1/20/1998 • Dr. John D. Wilson.

AU-55 Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. • A. Kosoff 10/1961: 257 $265 • Hollinbeck Kagin Coin Co. • 1964 ANA (Federal Brand Enterprises): 87 $450.

AU-50 John Christensen (Excelsior Coin Gallery), 4/1984 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

AU-50 C. Douglas Smith • Dorothy Paschal.

AU-50 Peter Mougey • William H. Woodin • Thomas L. Elder #43, 9/1910: 49 $7.50 • Henry Chapman • Clarence S. Bement • Henry Chapman 5/1916: 313 $6,50.