1819 1C Small Date, RD MS(PCGS#1608)

August 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1073

等级

MS63RD

价格

28,344

详细说明

Highly Significant Full Red 1819 N-8 Cent 1819 Matron Head Cent. N-8. Rarity-1. Small Date. MS-63 RD (PCGS). Type:Matron Head. Design: Obv: A head of Liberty faces left with 13 stars around the border and the date 1819 below. She is wearing a coronet inscribed LIBERTY, her hair tied into a bun at the back of her head by a plain cord. 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: 28-29 mm. Die Variety: Newcomb-8. Obv: Small Date, stars 1 and 13 are distant from the first and final digits, respectively. Close inspection with a loupe reveals minor repunching to the upper right of the letter T in LIBERTY and the left side of the adjacent Y. This obverse die also appears in the 1819 N-7 pairing. Rev: The letters UNI in UNITED are high and canted to the left, the final letter A in AMERICA is distant from the adjacent C, and there is an outer berry below the center of the first letter A in the same word. The 1819 N-8 represents the only use of this reverse die. Most die marriages correspond to the Small Date Guide Bookvariety of the 1819 Matron Head cent. Die State: Noyes B/B. Obv: The die is well worn with scant denticulation around the border and extensive flowlining in the fields. Rev: The reverse die is also in an advanced state of deterioration, the field rough and flowlined around the periphery and denticulation virtually absent. Edge: Plain. Mintage for the Issue: 2,671,000 coins. Estimated Surviving Population for the Die Variety: Rarity-1: More than 1,500 coins in all grades. Strike: Peripheral softness on both sides is commensurate with the die state, to which we add bluntness to stars 10 to 13 on the obverse and softness to many of the letters in the legend on the reverse, especially those in the words STATES OF AMERICA. Central detail is significantly bolder with most elements of Liberty's portrait and the wreath sharply to fully defined. Surfaces: Vivid reddish-orange color dominates both sides, with only trivial mellowing to olive-brown in isolated areas, more so on the obverse. Frosty in texture and nearly free of contact, several minor carbon spots are scattered about. Small flecks in the field before Liberty's nose and above the letter O in ONE are offered as identifiers for provenance purposes. Commentary: The 1819 Newcomb-8 is one of the less famous Randall Hoard varieties in the Matron Head cent series, as it was not as widely represented in that find as the 1818 N-10 or 1820 N-13. The present example is likely from that hoard as it has the "look" that we have come to expect for the finer Randall Hoard cents, i.e. predominantly bright red mint color with isolated swirls of toning. The surfaces have changed little since this coin first appeared in the modern numismatic market, when it was described in the catalog for our (Stack's) May 1971 sale as, "Full blazing mint color with just the slightest blush of toning." Appearing years later in Heritage's June 2004 Long Beach Signature Sale, it was noted that this coin was, at that time, the only full Red 1819 Small Date cent of any die pairing certified by PCGS. It remains a rarity in the RD category, and would serve as a highlight in even the finest large cent collection. Provenance: From the ESM Collection. Earlier from our (Stack's) Metropolitan New York Numismatic Convention Sale of May 1971, lot 100; Heritage's Long Beach Signature Sale of June 2004, lot 7027. PCGS Population (all die marriages of the Small Date variety): 2; 1 finer in this category (MS-64 RD). PCGS# 1608. Click here for certification details from PCGS.