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1787 MASSACHUSETTS HALF CENT -
Ryder 1-D

Images courtesy of Superior Galleries

Recent appearances:
NGC MS-62 Brown.  Ex – American Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics Sale,” July 25, 2003 , Lot 63, "Ryder 1-D, Rarity-4", illustrated, sold for $2,760.00

PCGS AU-50 (illustrated above).  Ex - Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Sale", October 1-3, 2000, Lot 1016, where it was described as follows: "Ryder 1-D Rarity-4 PCGS About Uncirculated-50. Frosty chocolate brown and steel. There is a small stain of darker olive toning at EA in WEALTH, and this area is very slightly rough. The only other marks are a tiny void in the planchet at the rim right of the date and a very thin fissure slanting through the H in MASSACHUSETTS, both as struck."

Sources and/or recommended reading:
"Descriptions Of Die Varieties" by Zelinka, The Colonial Newsletter, October 1976, pages 559-564

Rarity ratings by Stan Stephens (posting by at colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, August 30, 2004, Message 26963

Email message from Mike Ringo, November 16, 2004

 
 

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