Rothchild Counterfeit Houston Money Show Auction January 20, 2024

LOT 147 1823/2 N-1 R2 Overdate 3 over 2 G5+. Glossy steel brown and light chocolate. Smooth with small contact marks in the fields on both sides; a short scratch under the left foot of the N in ONE is a good identifying mark. The date is strong and the overdate feature is obvious.

LOT 149 1824/2 N-1 R1 Overdate 4 over 2 PCGS graded VF25. Glossy olive brown and chocolate with frosty lighter steel brown in protected areas. The surfaces are smooth and this cent has very nice eye appeal, but there are some faint horizontal hairlines on the neck and vertical ones in the field before the portrait. None of these hairlines is visible to the unaided eye. E-MDS, Grellman state b, with fine die cracks on both sides but before any crumbling in the obverse dentils. There is a fine double profile on stars 6-13, on the hair under stars 8 & 9, on the bun, and on the curl below. Some devices show triple outlines., all caused by die bounce or “machine doubling.” Our grade is net F15+ . The overdate feature is noted on the PCGS label. 1639.25/27400295

Ex Bill Schick 11/26/1988

Ex Heritage Auctions 9/26/2013:7149 (lot ticket included)

LOT 148 1823 Private Restrike PCGS graded MS62 Brown. Frosty light olive and steel brown with overtones of light bluish steel. Looks mint state but there is a hint of rub on the very highest points of the devices. The best identifying mark is a tiny planchet flake right of star 9. These private restrikes were made outside the mint using discarded mint dies sold as scrap. The obverse die used was the normal Newcomb-2 variety of 1823, but apparently a reverse die of the type used in 1823 was not available and they substituted a reverse die used for the 1813 Sheldon-293 variety. Both dies were heavily rusted and soon cracked as these “restrikes” were being produced. The result was an “1823” cent that looked nothing like the genuine mint product. The piece offered here is from the late state of the dies with strong cud breaks on the obverse and many cracks on both sides. Our grade is AU58.

Ex Chris McCawley 4/11/1997

LOT 150 Quartet of 1824 Cents. Includes N-2 R2 VG10+, N-3 R2 G5 net G4 for fine scratches, N-4 R2 VG8, and N-5 R4 Overdate 4 over 2 G5. All are glossy brown and chocolate. Lot of 4 coins.

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