Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Issues of November 1803-November 1804

Large Letters and Fraction Unless Otherwise Noted

Obverse 10. IB almost touch and bases of ER are very close. Left upright of T is repunched. In date, 1 is farther from the curl than on any other die.

Reverse N. Large letters and fraction. Six berries left and five right. Repunching is visible at right upright of D. Shortest fraction bar with large fraction.

Die states: I. "Perfect dies." Reverse clash marks from the hair left of O(N). Newcomb 11-M.

II. Reverse cracked from the rim through E(D) to wreath and left base of N(E). Another crack from the rim through left foot of S(T), to wreath, and upright of F to rim. Buckling develops at ATE. Newcomb 11-Mb.

III. Cracks from rim through E(S) to the top leaf and from the rim through final S to top leaf. A third crack extends from the rim toward the wreath just left of O(F). The bulge at ATE extends to (S)T and becomes very heavy. Newcomb 11-Mc.

IV. Crack joins tops of TES. Another crack from rim between TA toward wreath.

V. Retained cud beginning on, and eventually obliterating, STATES, later extending to OF, weakening 180 and the lower curls.

A later state may exist with a full cud on STATES OF.

Equivalents: Proskey 14. Doughty 192. McGirk 15A-15C. Ross 14:7-M. Newcomb 15. Sheldon 257. EAC 16.

Encyclopedia 1756.

Rarity 2.

Remarks: This and the next four may have followed numbers 21-24.

On the four Large Letters dies, and on 1804 reverse A and 1807 reverse C, the top of u is closed, and all TS have a notch on the left upright just above the base.

Condition Census:

MS-65 John P. Lyman • S. H. Chapman 11/1913: 423 $22 • Henry Chapman • Henry Chapman 6/1914: 1816 $35 • Dr. Henry W. Beckwith • S. H. Chapman 411923: 30 $38 • Wm. Festus Morgan • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #287, 6/1932: 65 $15.50 • B. Max Mehl Collection • T. James Oarke • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner, 6/4/1992 • Jay Parrino (The Mint). Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

MS-65 Rare Coin Company of America • Kevin Lipton Rare Coins and Gordon J. Wrubel, 8/1977 • Robert Blaugrund.

MS-63 Richard B. Winsor • S. H. & H. Chapman 121 1895: 879 $41 • Virgil M. Brand • B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.), 4/26/1943 $50 • A. Kosoff • Oscar J. Pearl • Numismatic Gallery FPL, 1944: 186 $125 • unknown • David Berg • Robert Le Blanc (Le Blanc Numismatics).

MS-61 Bowers and Merena 11/1984: 2039 $3,740 • J. J. Teaparty • Herman Halpern, 12/11/1986 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr.

MS-60 Howard R. Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 435 $52.50 • Joseph H. Spray • Stack's 4/1978: 87 $1,800 • unknown • Auction '80 (Paramount International Sales Corp.): 557 $3,800 • Stack's • unknown • New England Rare Coin Auctions 3/1982: 787 $1,842.50 • Wade Hinderling • Ed Hipps (Ed Hipps Gallery) • unknown • Bowers and Merena 3/1991: 152 $6,160. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Newcomb.

AU-55 Henry C. Miller • Thomas 1. Elder 4/1917: 795 $30 • Henry Chapman • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • T. James Clarke, 10/1954 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 575 $850 • Myles Z. Gerson • Jerry A. Bobbe • C. Douglas Smith • Jack H. Beymer • 1982 ANA (Steve Ivy Numismatic Auctions): 1514 $1,567.50 • Denis W. Loring, 2/1985 • C. Douglas Smith. Herman Halpern. Stack's 3/1988: 240 $3,740 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr .• Early American Coppers 4/1989: 146 $4,750 • Anthony Terranova.

AU-55 Horace M. Grant 2/1945: 71 $17.50 • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1952 $85 • C. Douglas Smith • Louis Helfenstein. Lester Merkin 8/1964: 34 $900 • C. Douglas Smith. State I.

AU-50 Howard R. Newcomb, privately. Emanuel Taylor, 10/1960 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • A. Kosoff 10/1961: 309 $95 • Stack's • Dr. E. Yale Clarke • Stack's 10/1975: 66 $380 • "EMG" • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries 6/1982: 227 $1,000.

AU-50 Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp. ANS. State I. Reverse illustrated in Early American Cents. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Penny Whimsy.

AU-50 Hans M. F. Schulman 11/1967: 908 $200 • Philip Branson • Paramount International Coin Corp. 2/1975: 145 $375.