2024 EAC Sale

EARLY CENTS AUCTIONS

LOT 292 1798 S-156 R5+ Small 8, Style I Hair, Reverse of 1796 G5. Sharpness F12, perhaps a bit better in some areas, but covered with moderate corrosion. Shallow greenish olive verdigris shows in a few of the protected areas. The notable marks are some old scratches on the face and neck. Slightly glossy olive brown with lighter chocolate brown toning on the devices. MDS, Breen state II, with a strong die crack from the rim up through the bust to the lower neck. The date and legends are complete and easily readable in spite of the roughness.

Ex Darwin B. Palmer 1976-Ed Miller Collection, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 6/5/2016:170 (includes the Miller collection envelope and lot ticket)

LOT 293 1798 S-157 R2 Small 8, Style I Hair, PCGS graded AU53. Frosty light chocolate brown with darker steel brown toning on the highpoints and frosty lighter brown toning in protected areas. This cent is choice except for a small area on the upper neck that was rubbed leaving lighter reddish tan toning at that spot. This cent was struck from the late, heavily rusted state of the dies, Breen state IV. Both sides show extensive evidence of die rust, strongest on the right side of the obverse and inside the wreath. The rust blunted many of the finer details on the dies and this cent shows only a trace of very light wear on the highpoints. Noyes and Bland both grade it net EF40, tied for CC#8 in the Noyes census, his photo #34492. Our grade is EF45+ sharpness net EF40+. An attractive cent that comes with a very nice provenance. The attribution and Reynolds provenance are noted on the PCGS label. 36035.53/32783218 Ex Robert J. Kissner, Stack’s 6/27/1975:304-C. Douglas Smith-G. Lee Kuntz, Superior 10/6/1991:178-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 1/27/1996:221-Robert C. Clark, Bowers & Merena 2000 ANA Sale, lot 276-Michael Arconti-Walter Reed-Colonel Steven Ellsworth, Heritage Auctions 9/27/2013:4672-Thomas D. Reynolds Collection, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/31/2016:144

LOT 294 1798 S-159 R3 Small 8, Style I Hair, PCGS graded VF30. A sharp cent that has decent eye appeal, but there are defects. Small contact marks are scattered over both sides and there are traces of fine roughness in a few places, the largest under the Y. Recolored glossy light olive mottled with reddish brown, and there are traces of tan in protected areas on the reverse. E-MDS, Breen state II. The vertical die cracks behind the portrait are strong. Our grade is VF30 sharpness net FVF20. 36041.30/30437691

Ex Denis W. Loring, 2000 EAC Sale, lot 197 (as VF30+ net VF20) (includes the Loring envelope and lot ticket)

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