Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

Obverse 4. LH. LH. B. B. Large wide date with thick center stroke to 8, 81 farther apart than on obverse 3, and 2 high. L is low, BE lean left, and RT are repunched. Rust pit above earlobe. Stars 2-3 are closer together than others. Broad coarse dentils.

Reverse D. R. PR. SPC. NC. High leaf about midway between s and o. ST are slightly low.

Die states: I. Entire date is repunched: above the right foot of first 1, at the bases of 81, and at the upper left curve of 2. Reverse has double clash marks. Raised ridge develops at dentil tips, at first above TES OF AM, later extending around the entire periphery. Extremely rare. Discovered by Pete Smith at the 1987 EAC Convention

II. Repunching at the date fades out. A slight bulge develops right of the seventh star. Flow lines develop on both sides. Reverse has at least seven sets of clash marks through O(N) and c(E), others right of (N)E and (N)T.

III. Heavy obverse flow lines with the date and right stars pulled out to the rim. Defect in curl before ear. Reverse clash marks are worn off. Heavy flow lines through UNITED.

IV. New heavier double clash marks, from the chin above C(E), from the ribbon end right of (N)E, and from the fillet and parts of IT between NT.

Equivalents: Proskey 2. Doughty 218. McGirk 2A Clapp 2. Sheldon 289. EAC 4. Encyclopedia 1784.

Rarity 1.

Remarks: Plentiful in all grades, even AU. There was apparently a tiny hoard On weaker strikings, the leaf below c(A) is nearer to position NL than NC.

Condition Census:

MS-62 Not well struck up. Thomas Warner • S. H. & H. Chapman 6/1884: 3029 $5.25 • Richard B. Winsor • S. H. & H. Chapman 12/1895: 896 $8.50 • George H. Earle, Jr. • Henry Chapman 6/1912: 3452 $9.50 • Dr. W. Earle Chapman • C. David Pierce • A. Kosoff (Numismatic Gallery), 5/15/1947 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/1973: 603 $800 • Paramount International Coin Corp. • Paramount International Coin Corp. 11/1974: 77 $1,000 • Paramount International. Coin Corp., privately • Larry Whitlow (Ford City Coins & Stamps, Ltd.) • Denis Peltonen • Jack H. Beymer • Michael Laboda (Wolverine Coins) • Greg Mellon • Jack H. Beymer • Andrew P. Lustig.

MS-61 James B. Wilson • Thomas L. Elder #21, 10/ 1908: 1034 $13.75 • Virgil M. Brand . B. G. Johnson (St Louis Stamp & Coin Co.) • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 4/19/1972 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr; 2/23/1992. Eric Streiner • Reed Hawn • Stack's 10/1993: 6 $7,700. unknown • Mark Yaffe (National Gold Exchange) • Chris Victor-McCawley (CVM), 9/26/1996 • W. M. "Jack" Wadlington. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Nayes.

AU-55 Stack's, privately, 9/26/1988 • Gilbert Steinberg.

AU-55 Rare Coin Company of America 4/1975: 400 $1,100 • unknown • Rare Coin Company of America. Heritage Rare Coin Galleries • Heritage Numismatic Auctions (Bullet Sale) 8/1995: 1008 $5,940.

AU-55 Harry DeVore • Russell Wyatt. Superior Galleries 9/1985: 334 $2640 • Stack's • Herman Halpern • Stack's 3/1987: 156 $2,475 • Jeffrey Oliphant.

AU-55 Stack's 1/1993: 1169 $4,180. Lee J. Bellisario • unknown • Superior Stamp & Coin Co. 5/1995: 2031 • unknown • Bowers and Merena 9/1995: 1139 $3,960.

AU-55 Arthur C. Fritz • Rudolph Khol • Federal Coin Exchange FPL, 1952 $65 • 1954 ANA (Federal Coin Exchange): 1033 $65.

AU-50 Stack's, privately • Herman Halpern. Stack's 3/1988: 276 $1,760 • Julian Leidman • Heritage Numismatic Auctions #5, 12/1988: 24 $2,530 • George Hope.

AU-50 Rodney T. Grove • Robert Nofal and Lewis Kling • Auction '81 (Superior Stamp & Coin Co.): 530 $1,200.

AU-50 Sharpness of Mint State but some reverse corrosion. Charles Benton - Joseph Bailey. Robert J. Kissner • Stack's 6/1975: 408 $380 • Myles Z. Gerson. Bill Grayson (B & B Coins) • Bowers and Ruddy Galleries 2/1977: 46 $575 • J. J. Teaparty • unknown. Kagin's Numismatic Auctions #337, 1/1985: 1117 $1,375 • Consignment Maryland • Coin Galleries 2/1987: 1103 $1815 • Coin Galleries • Coin Galleries 5/1987: 1278 $3,300 • Lillian Willens • Superior Galleries 5/1992: 507 • John Gervasoni (Scorpio Monetary Distributors) • 1996 ANA (Heritage Numismatic Auctions): 6517 • John Gervasoni (Scorpio Monetary Distributors).

AU-50 Bowers and Merena 6/1984: 3357 $880. Del Bland.

AU-50 Howard R Newcomb • J. c. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/1945: 480 $22.

AU-50 Judge Thomas L. Gaskill. New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal. New Netherlands Coin Co. #50, 12/1957: 1305 $37.50 • Dorothy Paschal.