Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 4, Date is wider than obverse 5. In LIBERTY, B is close to the hair, E is farther, and R is farthest.

Reverse C. Large fraction and letters, as on 1803 reverse dies N, O, P, S, 1804 reverse A, and the die muled with the 1806 quarter dollar obverse. I is above Nand T. A is below M and touches it. Outer berry at E(D) is half buried in a leaf.

Die states: L New set of clash marks from leaves below the ribbon and chin, Reverse bulge between F A is faint in the earliest stages.

II. Bulge at UB, at first faint. Rim crumbling left of L (centering may not show it), this is at first barely noticeable, later a rim break extends beyond the dentils. Later with three faint sets of clash marks from the drapery below ES O.

III. Bulge has weakened LIB with a crack through the tops of LIBERTY. Severe multiple clash marks from leaves near the ribbon, face, and throat. Dentils are blurred above the bulge at F A. Rare.

Equivalents: Proskey 4. Doughty 206. McGirk SA.

Clapp 5. Sheldon 275. EAC 5. Encyclopedia 1772.

Low Rarity 3.

Remarks: Left reverse border and UNITED are weak, resulting from die misalignment.

The "Observation Series" contained 27.

Condition Census:

AU-55 Corpus Christi College (England) • Ashmolean Museum (England).

AU-50 C. T. Whitman • S. H. & H. Chapman 8/1893: 860 $11.50 • Hillyer Ryder, 5/1945 • Wayte Raymond, 1947 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992 • Eric Streiner • Early American Coppers 4/1994: 298 $4,800 • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM), 9/27/1994 • C. Douglas Smith. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Early American Cents and in Noyes.

EF-45 Charles W. "Suitcase" Foster, 9/1950 • C. Douglas Smith, 9/19/1987 • Fred H. Borcherdt.

EF-45 Rudolph Khol • Federal Coin Exchange FPL, 1952 as "S-276" $55 • Harold Bareford, 9/13/1985 • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1988: 260 $1,210.

EF-40 Robert J. Kissner • Stack's 6/1975: 392 $380 • Kenneth D. Pines. C. Douglas Smith, 12/1977 • Denis W. Loring, 1/1978 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 404 $1,155 • Gary Ruttenberg. M & G Auctions 8/1996: 282 $1,980 • W. M. "Jack" Wadlington.

EF-40 George E Seavey • William H. Strobridge, 1873: 362 • Lorin G. Parmelee • unknown • Charles J. Dupont • Stack's 9/1954: 494 $125 • Benjamin Stack (Imperial Coin Co.) • Mrs. R. Henry Norweb • Bowers and Merena 11/1988: 2840 $660 • C. Douglas Smith, 4/29/ 1993 • Eric Streiner • Thomas D. Reynolds. State II.

EF-40 Carl Wurtzbach • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill • New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal • Charles E. Harrison, 8/1991 • Denis W. Loring, 8/1991 • Thomas D. Reynolds.

VF-35 Henry C. Miller • Thomas L. Elder 4/1917: 806 $72 • "Gar" • M. L. Kaplan, 12/11/1954 • C. Douglas Smith • George Ramont.

VF-35 Hollinbeck Stamp and Coin Co. #77, 11/1949: 1517 $50 • Adm. Worthington S. Bitler, 8/1960 • A. Kosoff, 4/1961 • R E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 591 $550 • A-Mark Com Co., 2/28/1975 • C. Douglas Smith.

VF-35 Michael Dunigan.

VF-35 George H. Clapp • Howard R Newcomb • J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 466 $26 • R. T. McPherson • Stack's 2/1953: 114 $60 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Ellen Enzler • Numismatic and Antiquarian Service Corporation of America 12/1978: 2656 not sold • Ellen Enzler.

VF-30 Sharpness of EF-45 but traces of porosity and some light reverse burnishing. Abner Kreisberg 9/1967: 414 $135 • Philip Van Cleave • Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #340, 1/1986: 5304 $330 • Ronald L. Muzzy.

VF-30 Sharpness of EF-45 hut obverse fields covered with minute scratches. Virgil M. Brand • Homer K. Downing • 1952 ANA (New Netherlands Coin Co. #38): 1976 $60 • Willard C. Blaisdell • Del Bland • Tom Morley, 1979 • Robinson S. Brown, Jr. • Superior Galleries 9/1986: 403 $484 • David Hirsch.

VF-30 J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #348, 5/1935: 34 $12.25 • George H. Clapp • ANS • (no longer in ANS).

VF-30 Willard C. Blaisdell • Del Bland • Jack H. Beymer.

VF-30 Auction '89 (David W. Akers): 1234 (large lot) $14,850 • Anthony Terranova • Thomas D. Reynolds, 9/15/1989 • Frank H. Stillinger.

VF-30 Henry Chapman • Hillyer Ryder • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal • New Netherlands Coin Co. #50, 12/1957: 1276 $120 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. Nat D. Wilson • 1967 ANA (Paramount International Coin Corp.): 308 $45 • Dr. John M. Tondra, 1980• Garry Fitzgerald • Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd. 9/1980: 75 $260 • Mike Brownlee.

VF-30 Hon. George M. Parsons • Henry Chapman 6/1914: 1824 $10.

VF-30 Adrian Ross • Stack's 6/1990: 1210 $412.50 • unknown • 1997 ANA (Heritage Numismatic Auctions): 8146 $719.