1814 1C Sheldon-295 Plain 4, BN MS(PCGS#36517)

August 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1067

等级

MS64+BN

价格

183,402

详细说明

Choice Mint State 1814 S-295 Plain 4 Cent The Oscar J. Pearl Specimen 1814 Classic Head Cent. S-295. Rarity-1. Plain 4. MS-64+ BN (PCGS). CAC. Type:Classic Head. Design: Obv: A head of Liberty faces left with 13 stars around the border arranged seven left, six right. The date 1814 is below. Liberty is wearing a fillet inscribed LIBERTY. Rev: A circular wreath encloses the denomination ONE CENT with the legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA around the border. Weight Standard: 10.89 grams. Diameter: 29 mm. Die Variety: Sheldon-295, Breen-2. Obv: Large, Plain 4 in the date, without crosslet, which is definitive for this obverse die, which appears only in the S-295 pairing. Rev: The point of the highest leaf in the wreath is under the right side of the final letter S in STATES, the letters UN in UNITED are slightly above the I at their base. S-295 also represents the only use of this reverse die. S-295 is the only die marriage that corresponds to the Plain 4 Guide Bookvariety of the 1814 Classic Head cent. Die State: Noyes C/B, Breen IV. Obv: Lightly clashed in the field before Liberty's nose and below the chin with a faint crack from star 11, through the lowest hair curls, extending nearly to the upper right corner of the digit 8 in the date. Rev: Perfect, but with light flowlining between the border at the top of the letters in the words STATES OF. Edge: Plain. Mintage for the Issue: 357,830 coins. Estimated Surviving Population for the Die Variety: Rarity-1: More than 1,500 coins in all grades. Strike: Expertly produced by the standards of this challenging large cent design type, both sides are fully denticulated around the borders, although the obverse is drawn trivially to 1 o'clock. All design elements are boldly to sharply rendered; there is just a touch of softness to a few star centrils on the obverse and a couple of leaves in the wreath on the reverse. Surfaces: A beautiful mix of steel and medium brown patina dominates the appearance, although plenty of faded mint orange remains in the fields on both sides. Frosty surfaces are hard, tight and free of distracting blemishes. There are tiny nicks on Liberty's throat and in the field above the ribbon end, faint hairline graze inside stars 4 and 5, although one will need a loupe to discern these features. Commentary: The final issue in the brief Classic Head cent series, the contemporary public may have set aside a number of 1814 cents as the last of their kind. In any case, this issue is more available in About Uncirculated and Mint State grades than any other of its type. The Bland census refers to approximately 20 Mint State survivors from the Sheldon-295 dies, which is rarer than S-294 with approximately 25 Uncirculated coins known. In an absolute sense, of course, both varieties are significant rarities in the finest grades, especially due to the demand for this final year issue among collectors building Mint State type sets. The ESM specimen of the S-295 variety is not included in either the Bland or 2015 Noyes census listings. In his cataloging for the 2016 sale of the Tom Reynolds Collection, Bob Grellman assigns this coin an EAC grade of "MS60++, very close to MS63." Provenance: From the ESM Collection. Earlier ex Oscar J. Pearl, 1944; our (Stack's) sale of April 3-4, 1975, lot 28; Gordon Gleitz, April 1996; Tom Reynolds; Ira & Larry Goldberg's sale of the Tom Reynolds Collection of Large Cents, Part I, January 2016, lot 330. PCGS Population: 1; 4 finer in this category (MS-67 BN finest). There is also a single RB coin, graded MS-64, listed at this service. CAC Population: 1; 2. PCGS# 36517. NGC ID: 224Y. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.