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1800 1C Normal Date. AU50 PCGS. S-212, B-20,

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:1,900.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
1800 1C Normal Date. AU50 PCGS. S-212, B-20,
<B>1800 1C Normal Date. AU50 PCGS. S-212, B-20, R.3. </B></I> <B>Noyes VF35; CC-8. Photo #36122. Our EAC Grade VF35.</B></I><BR><BR><B>Equivalents.</B></I> McGirk 4M; Ross 18; Clapp-Newcomb 25; EAC 22; <I>Encyclopedia </B></I>1737; PCGS #1449.<BR><BR><B>Surfaces.</B></I> Intermingled light and medium brown with splashes of darker steel toning on both sides. The sharpness is slightly finer with moderate abrasions, faint hairlines, and minor reverse surface roughness.<BR><BR><B>Variety. </B></I>Die chips below 00. Spike inside C of CENT. The obverse appears on S-212. The reverse appears on S-212.<BR><BR><B>Die State VI. </B></I>The latest die state recorded by Breen, with prominent die cracks across the upper obverse, and advanced die failure at ERTY. <BR><BR><B>Census. </B></I>The three finest examples that Bland records all grade AU50, but two of those coins are ANS Collection specimens. The same collection also holds an XF piece. Although this coin ranks eighth finest for the variety, it is actually fifth finest of those available to collectors.<BR><BR><B>Commentary. </B></I>The black and white illustration at lot 295 in the 2000 ANA catalog is incorrect, but repeats the S-211 in lot 294. The color plate in the same catalog has the correct photo of this coin.<BR><BR><B>Provenance. </B></I><I>Heritage (10/1995), lot 5669; Bowers and Merena (3/1998), lot 169, $1,540; Thomas Reynolds (1998); Robert Clark; Bowers and Merena (8/2000), lot 295, $2,990; Thomas Reynolds (8/2000).</B></I><BR><BR><B>Personality. Robert C. Clark </B></I>joined EAC in 1978. Working in financial services, he has collected and owned numerous Condition Census large cents. Among the coins bearing his pedigree is the Marsh specimen of the 1794 Starred Reverse cent, S-48. Bowers and Merena sold his collection of 104 high-quality large cents at the 2000 ANA Convention sale. At the time, Clark noted that some collectors have an "O-Four Dollar" but he has a "Dollar-O-Four." He is currently building a second collection.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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