1813 1C, BN MS(PCGS#1570)

August 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1065

等级

MS65BN

价格

666,916

详细说明

Beautiful 1813 Classic Head Cent CC#1 for the S-292 Dies 1813 Classic Head Cent. S-292. Rarity-2. MS-65 BN (PCGS). OGH. 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 1813 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-292, Breen-2. Obv: Star 13 is distant from the digit 3 in the date, which is sufficient to distinguish this die from the only other obverse of the 1813 Classic Head cent. Both 1s in the date are large. S-292 represents the only use of this obverse die. Rev: The point of the highest leaf in the wreath is under the right side of the final letter S in STATES, as opposed to almost midway between the words STATES and OF on the reverse of the other die marriage of this issue. In the word OF, the letter F is high relative to the adjacent O. S-292 also represents the only use of this reverse die. The two die marriages of this issue are S-292 and S-293, and both correspond to the single Guide Booklisting of the 1813 Classic Head cent. Die State: Noyes A/B, Breen III. Obv: Light clash marks remain at Liberty's throat and below the truncation after the die was relapped. Faint flowlines are evident in the field around some of the stars. Rev: Lightly clashed within the wreath at top around the seventh berry, with faint flowlining in the field around the periphery. Edge: Plain. Mintage for the Issue: 418,000 coins. Estimated Surviving Population for the Die Variety: Rarity-2: 751 to 1,000 coins in all grades. Strike: An overall boldly defined example with sharp to full detail to most major design elements. Softness is minor and confined to stars 3 to 7 on the obverse, which are blunt and lack centrils. The impression on that side is drawn trivially to 3 o'clock, reverse to 1 o'clock, although the denticulation is complete around both sides. Surfaces: This is a simply outstanding example of both the type and die pairing. The surfaces are smooth, hard and tight, bordering on pristine. Satin to softly frosted in texture, both sides exhibit dominant autumn-brown color with just a splash of warmer olive-brown patina on the obverse over and around the bottom of Liberty's portrait. The surfaces retain their virtually pristine appearance even upon close examination with a loupe. Perhaps most useful for provenance purposes are a shallow area of roughness (as made) at the obverse border outside star 7, a thin, arcing graze near the reverse border outside the letter D in UNITED, and an ancient carbon deposit tucked into the wreath next to the letter T in CENT. Commentary: The 1813 Classic Head has always been considered a semi-key date, perhaps not comparable to the 1799, 1804, or 1793, but certainly among the more challenging cents to find for a date collector. Montroville W. Dickeson had a ready explanation for this date's scarcity, writing in his 1859 American Numismatical Manual, "So many of the best of this emission have been altered to 1815 that it is difficult to obtain good specimens." When F.W. Doughty published his work on large cents in 1890, largely lifted from work accomplished earlier by David Proskey, he also noted this date's elusiveness. Before Sheldon's Early American Centscame out, Doughty was the most up to date book that covered the cents of 1813. Fast forwarding to the dawn of the 21st century, the Breen large cent encyclopedia confirms Dickeson's association of the 1813 cent with "bogus '1815' cents." The author also goes on to state that poor quality planchets play a (more significant) part in the elusiveness of this issue in the finer circulated and all Mint State grades. As with the 1811/0 S-286, Breen speculates that some of the planchets used for the 1813 S-292 and S-293 varieties may have been damaged by bilge water and/or salt spray during transit from England to America. If so, the casks containing the planchets eventually used for the 1812 and 1814 issues -- all of which were in the same shipment from Boulton -- were not affected to the same degree since they are seen less frequently than the 1813 with pitted or similarly impaired surfaces. Any talk of impairments has no place in connection with the present coin. It is a beautiful Classic Head cent, irrespective of date or variety, and is widely recognized as the finest survivor from the S-292 dies. Bland assigned a (conservative, in our opinion) EAC grade of MS-61 and ranks it tied for CC#1 with the Dr. E. Yale Clarke specimen. The 2015 Noyes census, which is usually more conservative than Bland, grades this coin MS63(MS60) Average Plus and ranks it alone as CC#1. (The Clarke specimen is tied for CC#7 in the Noyes census). The only other 1813 cent to have received an MS-65 BN grade from PCGS is the Pogue specimen from the S-293 dies that realized $82,250 in our April 2017 Pogue V sale. The PCGS MS-64 RB is the CC#1 coin from the S-293 dies in the 2015 Noyes census. This cent offers outstanding quality and eye appeal of the sort that we have come to expect from the ESM cabinet, and only the strongest bids will be competitive when this phenomenal 1813 S-292 cent comes up for auction. Provenance: From the ESM Collection. Earlier ex Dr. Thomas Hall, September 7, 1909; Virgil M. Brand; Carl Wurtzbach; Dr. William H. Sheldon, April 19, 1972; R.E. "Ted" Naftzger, Jr., February 23, 1992; Eric Streiner; Jay Parrino, April 16, 1996; W.M. "Jack" Wadlington. The plate coin for the die variety in the 1991 edition of the Noyes large cent reference, and the plate coin for Die State A/B in the 2015 edition of the Noyes large cent reference. PCGS Population (both die marriages of the issue): 2; 0 finer in this category. There is also an MS-64 RB listed at this service. PCGS# 1570. NGC ID: 224X. Click here for certification details from PCGS.