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Images courtesy of Hancock
& Harwell Rare Coins
Recent appearances:
NGC MS-62. Heritage 01/2004: 9014, $13,800.00, Small Date and Small
Letters, Variety 7-E
NGC AU-58. Heritage
01/2004: 9015, $21,850.00, Large Date and Letters, Variety 9-G
AU-50. Ex - Bowers and
Merena Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV
Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 373, "Small Date",
illustrated, sold for $1,380.00 From
RARCOA's sale of February 1972, Lot 883
ICG EF-45. Ex - Ira
& Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc.'s "Benson
Collection, Part I", February 16, 18-20, 2001, Lot 4015, illustrated,
sold for $1,207.00
VF-25. Ex - Bowers and Merena Galleries, "The Harry W.
Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 374,
"Small Date", not illustrated, sold for $805.00 Purchased from Mike Brownlee, March 31,
1967
VF-25. Ex - Bowers & Merena Galleries' "The Cabinet of
Lucien M. LaRiviere, Part III", May 21, 2001, Lot 217, "Small
Date", not illustrated, sold for $833.75
Notes:
This date is represented by Small and Large Date
varieties. The coin illustrated above is a Small Date; below is an
example of the Large Date. As you can see, the differences in the
sizes of the dates are slight. Perhaps the most noticeable
differences are in the sizes of the lettering on the reverse. The
Small Date variety, struck earlier in the year, conforms to the
1839-1841 type; the Large Date variety has the larger letters that were
introduced on the reverse sometime in mid to late 1842. According
to Breen, the Small Date variety can be tied to a shipment of a single
pair of dies on December 20, 1841. Further, he notes that the
single pair of dies used to strike the Large Date variety was shipped on
September 29, 1842 and received on October 7th of the same year.
Assuming Breen's analysis to be correct, the Dahlonega mint produced 37,917 Small Dates and 21,691 Large Dates.
The finest "Small
Date" examples graded by PCGS are 5 MS-62's.
The finest
"Large Date" example graded by PCGS is a single MS-61.
Varieties:
Small Date (illustrated above)
Large Date (illustrated below)
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial
Coins" by Walter Breen
"The PCGS Population
Report, July 2003" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service |
