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1797 Low Head, Lettered Edge, C-3b, B-3a, High R.4, VF20 NGC. Our EAC grade Fine 12. ...

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1797 C-3b, B-3a Lettered Edge Half Cent, VF20
Struck on a Cut-Down 1798 Cent, S-160/161

1797 Low Head, Lettered Edge, C-3b, B-3a, High R.4, VF20 NGC. Our EAC grade Fine 12. 96.8 grains. Breen Die State V. Manley Die State 2.0. The 1797 Lettered Edge half cents were struck from the Low Head dies identified as C-3 and B-3. Scarce Plain Edge coins and extremely rare Gripped Edge coins were also struck from these dies. While all 1797 Lettered Edge coins were apparently struck on planchets made from error cents that were then cut down to half cent size, only a few show evidence of large cent undertype, and rarely with undertype that can be attributed to date or variety.

Examples of this variety are known struck on 1796, 1797, and 1798 cents, and at least one example (that Roger S. Cohen, Jr. reported to Walter Breen) is struck on an 1800/179 cent, although Breen stated that he had not examined that coin. The existence of one on an 1800-dated large cent tells us that these coins were all struck in that year or later, and the observation that the Lettered Edge coins are the earliest state of the C-3 dies provides dating for all coins from these dies showing the three different edge types. Walter Breen dates these pieces to the first half of the 1800 calendar-year.

Undertype is visible on both sides with the 98 from the date noted between OF and AM on the reverse of this important half cent. Both sides have semi-glossy steel-brown surfaces with a few scattered marks that are easily confused with traces of the large cent undertype. This piece is recorded as Very Fine and the fifth finest known in the Breen-Hanson Condition Census. Its census rank today is probably among the top 10 or 12 pieces.
Ex: Joseph Brobston Collection (Stack's, FPL #9, January 1963); Blaise J. Dantone Collection (Lester Merkin, 3/1969), lot 597; Jon Hanson; Donald G. Partrick.

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 2U6H, Variety PCGS# 35113, Base PCGS# 1033, Greysheet# 80868)

Weight: 6.74 grams

Metal: 100% Copper

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2021 April 22 - 25 Central States US Coins Signature Auction #1329 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
April, 2021
22nd-25th Thursday-Sunday
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