1794 1/2C High Relief Head, BN MS (PCGS#35054)
The August 2010 Boston Rarities Sale
- 拍卖行
- Bowers & Merena
- 批号
- 1001
- 等级
- MS65
- 价格
- 700,518
- 详细说明
- 1794 Liberty Cap Half Cent. C-9, B-9. Rarity-2. Manley Die State 1.0. High Relief Head. MS-65 BN (NGC). <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Designed by Robert Scot, the first chief engraver of the United States Mint, the Head Right variant of the Liberty Cap Half Cent made its debut in 1794. That year represents only the second in which the fledgling United States Mint struck coins of this denomination, and federal records provide for a delivery of 81,600 pieces during the calendar year. Most of those coins were probably dated 1794, and there is little dispute in numismatic circles with using this total as a fairly accurate mintage figure for the 1794 Half Cent issue.<br /><br /> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> Mint employees required nine different die marriages to produced 1794-dated Half Cents, and a number of subvarieties are also known that are differentiated by the size of the edge lettering. C-9, which is known only with Small Edge Lettering, is one of the more plentiful in numismatic circles, and a number of impressive Mint State survivors are also known to exist. The coin we offer here, a lovely Gem that is certainly high in the Condition Census for both the issue and the die pair, traces its pedigree back to the historic collections of George H. Earle, Jr. sold in 1912 and Richard B. Winsor sold in 1895. In addition, this piece is the plate coin for the die marriage on page 118 of the 1983 book <i>Walter Breen’s Encyclopedia of United States Half Cents: 1793-1857</i>. Key identifiers that helped establish this fact, and that will be of obvious importance for future pedigree study, include: a short, dull nick on Liberty’s cheek; a faint toning spot on the obverse near the end of the liberty pole above the end of Liberty’s bust; and a shallow planchet flaw (as struck) that slants down to the border from the field area immediately below the right edge of the digit 2 in the denomination 1/200.<br /
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