Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents

AU-50 Sharpness of MS-60 but a wide scratch in hair; cleaned and recolored. From England •. R. J. Donovan • Philip G. Straus. Stack's 5/1959: 134 $570 • Dorothy Nelson. Stack's, privately (in stock 1977) • Herman Halpern. Stack's 3/1988: 99 $6,600.

AU-50 Col. James W. Ellsworth, 3/1923 • Wayte Raymond • Charles E. Clapp, Sr., 12/1924 • George H. Clapp • ANS • Dr. William H. Sheldon • Dorothy Paschal.
EF-45 Virgil M. Brand, 2/7/1941 • B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.) • Ira S. Reed, 5/1942 • Judge Thomas L. Gaskill. New Netherlands Coin Co., privately 11/1956 • Dorothy Paschal • Dr. Dane B. Nielsen • Michael Kiscadden • Hudson Valley Numismatists • Dr. Robert J. Shalowitz • Donald H. Petersen.

EF-45 Dr. William H. Sheldon • C. Douglas Smith, 1965 • Alfred Bonard • Stack's 1/1969: 177 $330 • Dr. Haig Koshkarian.

EF-40 With a line-like planchet defect bisecting the reverse. Sharpness of AU-50 but nicks and scratches. W. W. Hays, 1900 • Chas. Steigerwalt, 1906 • Charles G. Zug • Lyman H. Low 3/1907: 50 $3.85 • David Proskey • Henry C. Hines • Dr. William H. Sheldon • ANS. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Frdssard-Hays. Obverse illustrated in Chapman.

VF-35 Dr. George P. French, 3/21/1929 • B. Max Mehl FPL, 1929: 78 $40 • T. James Clarke, 1944 • B. Max Mehl, 1944 • Dr. William H. Sheldon, 1945 • Sheraton Coin Co. • 1947 ANA (Numismatic Gallery #40): 818 $37.50 • Dr. William H. Sheldon • unknown • Rhode Island Rare Coin Investments • A. Dean Tomlinson, Jr. • Del Bland • Myles Z. Gerson • Bertram Cohen • Early American Numismatics (Dana Linett) "Buy or Bid" Sale #2,1985: 531 $3,750 • Bertram Cohen • Kenedi Numismatic Auctions 1/1986: 48 $1,200 • Bertram Cohen, 8/24/1990 • Del Bland • Jeffrey Oliphant.

VF-35 Bowers and Ruddy Galleries, 8/23/1976 • Denis W. Loring, 5/7/1983 • Jack H. Robinson • Superior Galleries 1/1989: 123 $2,310. State II.

VF-35 Robert D. Book, 5/1930 • George H. Clapp, 3/ 31/1949 • Carnegie Institute.

VF-35 Charles M. Williams • Numismatic Gallery #68, 11/1950: 81 $30 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr.

Obverse 34.

Reverse NN. Triple leaf at 0 and double leaf at OF. Six berries left and seven right. The fraction bar slants up to the right. Stem ends are club shaped. Recutting is visible on the right ribbon. ST are high and this T leans left, CA lean right, and the final A is high.
Die states: I. Faintest trace of crack from the rim to left tip of Y only. Usually misidentified as "perfect dies."

II. Straight crack from the rim between TY to the brow, later heavier and extending through the temple and cheek to the jaw. Faint triple clash marks notably from the cap at IT and from the top of the head at the numerator. No clash mark from the nose at ER.

III. Double clash marks on both sides although only one clash mark from the nose at ER.

IV. Fourfold clash marks, plainest from the bust and pole through OF, and from the nose below ER.

Equivalents: Maris 36, "Plicae." Frossard 20. Doughty 56. Hays 51. McGirk 4H. Ross 31-II. Chapman 56. Sheldon 70. EAC 60. Encyclopedia 1669.

Low Rarity 2.

Remarks: Apparently delivered December 16-18. One reported with a plain edge. Richard Rosichan has a uniface (obverse) example. See "Oops!" chapter.

See numbers 35 and 63 for additional uses, by Maris, of the "Plicae" sobriquet.

Condition Census:

MS-60 Dr. Edward Maris • Harlan P. Smith 6/1886: 267 $20 • W. P.Titcomb • Benjamin H. Collins, 1895 • Dr. Thomas Hall, 9/7/1909 • Virgil M. Brand • B. G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.), 8/1/1945 $60 • James Kelly • Dr. James O. Sloss, 9/1958 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr. • A. Kosoff 10/1959: 25 $675 • Louis Helfenstein • Lester Merkin 8/1964: 5 $1,900 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/ 23/1992 • Eric Streiner, 4/4/1992 • Dr. Allen Bennett. Obverse and reverse illustrated in Noyes.

MS-60 With a small planchet defect through the edge. Major Sir Rowland Denys Guy Winn, M. C., 4th Baron St. Oswald • Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd. (London) 10/1964: 163 $1,120 • A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd. (London) • Lester Merkin 10/1966: 98 $2,100 • unknown. -Lester Merkin 6/1971: 548 $1,600 • R. E. Naftzger, Jr .• Thomas D. Reynolds.

AU-55 From an old Texas collection • L. R. Davis McKinney, Jr. • House of Davis McKinney #19, 1/1963: 142 • Robert S. Carter, Jr. • Del Bland • Hugh Campbell
• Del Bland • C. Douglas Smith • Del Bland, 2/25/1985 • John M. Foreman, Sr. • Stack's 1/1993: 1101 $3,575 • unknown • Stack's 12/1993: 1072 $3,850 • unknown • Stack's 11/1995: 1023 $3,960.