Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 1. Always with the rim. break below 802.

Reverse B. Wide fraction with the numerator partly above the space between zeros. Incomplete loops to ribbon bows. Stemless leaves right of (N)T. I is below N and T. AM lean right with base of A below M and E higher.

Die states: I. As number 1, state V. Newcomb 1bb-B.

II. At least four new sets of very faint clash marks appear below the chin. Faint crack from the rim through the right arm of Y into the field, later extending to center of the brow. At least five sets of faint clash marks from the hair in wreath, and from the neckline right of (N)E. Newcomb 1bb-c-B.

Newcomb was not aware of the earlier states in which the obverse crack does not reach the brow.

III. Crack joins AMER at or near tops, later extending nearly to the top of F. Newcomb 1bb-c-Bb, called by him extremely rare.

IV. Cracked along the nose through its tip to the rim. opposite the chin. Newcomb 1bb-d-Bb, Later, the crack extends through the brow and hair to E, still later to the rim. above B: Newcomb 1bb-e-Bb.

V. Clash marks from dentils through ICA and 100.

Equivalents: Proskey 10. Doughty 173. McGirk 12A. Ross 7-J. Newcomb 2. Sheldon 226. EAC 2.

Encyclopedia 1750.

Rarity 3.

Remarks: An earlier state may exist with normal bows, made before the reverse was reground to remove clash marks.

Condition Census:

MS-61 Carl Wurtzbach • Barney Bluestone #76, 4/1943: 1688 $75.50 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill. New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal, 1972 • Del Bland, 10/1972 • C. Douglas Smith. State I.

MS-60 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 339 $45 • James Kelly. unknown • Jon Hanson, 8/1977 • Ed Hipps (Ed's Coin & Stamp Shop).

MS-60 American Auction Association 5/1973: 133 $1,400 • unknown • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries FPLs, 1977 $1,950 • Ed Hipps (Ed's Coin & Stamp Shop), 2/ 25/1978 • Andrew M. Hain • Dennis E. Steinmetz (Steinmetz Coins & Currency) • 1980 ANA (Steve Ivy Numismatic Auctions): 957 $4,500 • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen • Bruce Pasternak • 1986 ANA (Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #341): 5163 $1,650 • Andrew M. Hain.

MS-60 J. R. Harding • Thomas L. Elder 5/1927: 2955 • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 541 $950 • Rare Coin Company of America • Dennis Forgue • Thomas E. Werner, 8/1984 • Denis W. Loring, 1/1985 • Dr. Philip W. Ralls • Ed Hipps (Ed Hipps Gallery) • Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #340, 1/1986: 4222 $3,190 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 12/11/1986 • Herman Halpern Stack's 3/1988: 201 $3,740. State V.

MS-60 Lewis C. Gehring. Thomas L. Elder 8/1921: 907 $19 • George H. Clapp • ANS. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Newcomb. Obverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Penny Whimsy AU-55 A-Mark Coin Co. FPL, Coin World 4/17/1974, $1,425.

AU-55 Listed in Penny Whimsy; present whereabouts unknown.

AU-55 Listed in Penny Whimsy; present whereabouts unknown.

AU-50 Sharpness of nearly Mint State but a long obverse scratch. James G. Macallister • Milton A. Holmes • Stack's 10/1960: 1422 $540 • Frank H. Masters, Jr. • Rare Coin Company of America 5/1971: 141 $675 • R. E. Naftzger,Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner s Early American Coppers 4/1994: 271 $2,000 • Anthony Terranova • Stack's FPL, Summer 1995: 50 as "MS-60+" $5,750 • Stack's 11/1995: 1030 $4,400. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

AU-50 With a short line-like planchet defect on obverse and weak striking through the date.

George H. Clapp, 3/31/1949 • Carnegie Institute.

EF-45 Sharpness of AU-55 but some obverse porosity. Ray Chatham • Dorothy Paschal • Del Bland, 5/1979. Dr. Willard J. Carmel, Jr.

EF-40 Dr. William H. Sheldon • Homer K. Downing, privately. C. Douglas Smith • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Gordon J. Wrubel • Chuck Furjanic • Pine Tree Auction Co. 2/1975: 742E $250.

EF-40 Carl Wurtzbach • Virgil M. Brand • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately • Emanuel Taylor, 10/1960 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr.

EF-40 Dr.George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 286 $35 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl.