1811 Wide Date, B-1, C-1, Low R.4, AU58 PCGS. CAC. Our EAC Grade AU50....

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1811 B-1, C-1 Half Cent, AU58
Famous Four-Star Break

1811 Wide Date, B-1, C-1, Low R.4, AU58 PCGS. CAC. Our EAC Grade AU50. Please refer to lot 3089 for equivalents, rarity, die, and edge descriptions.
Surfaces. Rich brown surfaces show trivial handling marks on each side of this exceptional piece that displays warm rose and blue tones on each side.
Die State. Manley Die State 5.0. The obverse rim break has advance to join the four lowest stars on the left side of the obverse. The corresponding reverse is weak as expected due to the void in the obverse die.
Appearances. Illustrated at the PCGS Set Registry record of the McGuigan Collection.
PCGS Population (6/2022). The finest attributed submissions of 1811 B-1, C-1 half cents at PCGS include this AU58 and one remarkable MS66 Red and Brown example. This coin is the only 1811 half cent, attributed or not, that is graded AU58. The other two better grade 1811 half cents at PCGS are both attributed as B-2, C-2.
Commentary. Rim breaks on half cents are frequently encountered among the Draped Bust varieties, but rarely on earlier or later types. Some examples of 1793 B-1, C-1 half cents are known with a reverse rim break. No other Liberty Cap varieties are known with rim breaks. Several Draped Bust varieties are known with rim breaks, some extensive such as the 1804 B-5, C-7 and the 1804 B-6, C-6 die marriages. Three 1809 varieties can be found with rim breaks. After 1809, only the 1811 B-1, C-1 and 1826 B-2, C-2 die marriages are known with broken dies. There are no known rim breaks on any half cents struck after 1826.
McGuigan Commentary. Choice glossy steel-brown toning. Late die state (M5.0) with the rim cud at the first four stars on left. Among the top half dozen or so finest known specimens of the variety and possibly the finest known of the die state with the four-star rim cud.
Provenance. Ex: Bob's Coins; William K. Raymond; Del Bland (9/1982).
Personality. George Ehrenzeller was appointed as a bookkeeper and Treasurer's clerk on February 11, 1800, receiving pay of $700 per annum. He remained at that position until his death, always at the same annual salary of $700. We don't know much about Ehrenzeller, except that he was the son of Jacob Ehrenzeller and Anna Catharine Baker, born at Philadelphia on May 12, 1776, died there on November 6, 1829, and was buried at Christ Church burial ground in Philadelphia. He was identified as a clerk at the Mint in a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper article on July 16, 1829.
From The James R. McGuigan Half Cent Collection.

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 222S, Variety PCGS# 35239, Base PCGS# 1135, Greysheet# 80909)

Weight: 5.44 grams

Metal: 100% Copper

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