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1800 1C S-197 AU55 Uncertified

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1800 1C S-197 AU55 Uncertified
<B>1800 1C Normal Date. AU58 PCGS. S-197, B-12, R.1.</B></I> <B>Noyes AU55; tied for CC-6. Photo #27760. Our EAC Grade AU55.<BR><BR>Equivalents.</B></I> Proskey 8; Doughty 146; McGirk 4B; Ross 11; Clapp-Newcomb 10; EAC 12; <I>Encyclopedia </B></I>1737; PCGS #1449.<BR><B><BR>Surfaces.</B></I> Considerable frosty luster remains with traces of faded mint red in the protected areas on each side. Both sides have pleasing medium steel-brown color. A few minor marks including a nick on the neck and another on the cheek.<BR><B><BR>Variety. </B></I>Q variety. Die chips at first 0. Final S repunched with hook below. The obverse appears on S-197. The reverse appears on S-197 and NC-2.<BR><B><BR>Die State III. </B></I>The obverse has heavy die chips or breaks at IBE and the first 0. Both sides have clash marks, and the obverse also has a fine crack from the hair to the 8. Breen described "nearly horizontal cracks across the upper part of the hair," but these appear to be some type of constant die lines.<BR><BR><B>Census. </B></I>Unlisted in Bland's Census, the Norweb coin was graded AU55 in the Bowers and Merena catalog of that sale. The AU55 grade would place it in sixth position in Bland's roster, tied with half a dozen others for that Census rank.<BR><BR><B>Commentary. </B></I>The famous "Q" variety is instantly recognized, due to the die chips or breaks through the first 0 in the date. Additional die chips through IB confirm identification.<BR><BR><B>Provenance. </B></I><I>Dr. George P. French (B. Max Mehl, 1929 FPL), lot 244, $125; T. James Clarke (A. Kosoff, 4/1956), lot 67, $180; Norweb Collection (Bowers and Merena, 11/1988), lot 2787, $2,420; J.R. Frankenfield (Superior, 2/2001), lot 458, $12,075.</B></I><BR><BR><B>Personality. </B></I>Albert Fairchild Holden began the <B>Norweb Collection</B></I>, and Emery May Holden, who became Mrs. Raymond Henry Norweb, Sr. in 1917, continued it. Her grandfather was Liberty Emery Holden, founder of the <I>Cleveland Plain Dealer.</B></I> At the time she married Norweb, Emery May drove an ambulance and worked in French hospitals during World War I. Their first son, Raymond Henry Norweb, Jr., an active collector, was born in Paris during the middle of an air raid. The family formed a magnificent cabinet, mostly dispersed through a series of three Bowers and Merena sales in 1987 and 1988. The family donated a Brasher doubloon to the ANS in 1969 and a 1913 Liberty nickel to the Smithsonian Institution in 1978.<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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