1823 1C Private Restrike, RB MS (PCGS#81629)
The January 2012 Americana Sale
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 8108
- 等级
- MS65
- 价格
- 18,144
- 详细说明
- 1823 Matron Head Cent. Private Restrike. N-3. Rarity-2. Noyes Die State C. Copper. MS-65 RB (PCGS). As a date 1823 is one of the rarest and most eagerly sought in the middle portion of the entire U.S. large cent series of 1793 to 1857. The original mintage is unknown, and it is likely that none of the "originals" were actually struck during calendar year 1823. In fact, all original 1823 large cents were probably struck in 1824; at very least the mintage of original 1823 large cents is included in the total of 1.2 million pieces reported for the 1824 delivery.<br />
The rarity of the 1823 Matron Head cent was recognized early, and it was among the first U.S. Mint issues to be restruck for distribution to contemporary collectors when the hobby of numismatics first became popular in this country in the immediate pre Civil War era. The creation of restrike 1823 cents became possible when Joseph J. Mickley found the broken obverse die that the Mint used to strike the original variety that we now know as Newcomb-2. That obverse die, broken and rusted, was mated with the equally degraded reverse of the 1813 S-293 Classic cent obtained from a similar source to allow Mickley and his associates to begin producing restrikes. According to Walter Breen (1988) the first of these privately issued restrikes were produced in 1862, with additional pieces made at different periods of time over the next several decades. Noyes (<em>United States Large Cents: 1816-1839</em>, 1991) has identified three different die states, which fact seems to confirm successive striking periods or, at very least, multiple press runs. As confirmed by both Breen and Noyes, restrikes were made in both copper and silver, the latter very rare.<br />
Struck from the latest die state known to Noyes, this piece exhibits a sizeable die break from 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock on the obverse border, a pair of sharp cracks on the same side, a bisecting crack on the reverse and extensive die rust pits on both sides. Al
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