1812 LARGE CENT -
SHELDON 288
Rarity: Very Common
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Images courtesy of Ira
and Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles
Significant examples:
"AU-58". H. E. Jones (Edinburgh,
Scotland) - Scott
& Co. 10/1878:249 - Edward Cogan - Thomas Cleneay - S. H. & H. Chapman
12/1890:1834 -Charles Steigerwalt - unknown - Charles R. Mathewson 1955 -
Copley
Coin Co. - Lucius S. Ruder, Stack's 9/1987:410 - Herman Halpern, Stack's 3/1988:275
- Julian Leidman - Robert Schick - Heritage 2002 FUN Sale:5356 - Dr. Wallace
Lee - Superior 05/2003:559, $8,050.00. This coin is listed as
"MS-60" in Breen.
Recent appearances:
Net VF-30, sharpness of EF-45. Bowers & Merena
03/2001:2522, $184.00
PCGS graded AU-58 and Del Bland graded EF-45. J. G.
Macallister 5/1945 as "Unc." at $25 - Goldbergs 02/2001:384, $2,990.00
Del Bland graded VF-35. Bowers and Merena Galleries F.P.L.
1987-1988; Kingswood Collectors Exchange M.B.S. #1 3/1988:7-52; Bowers and
Merena Galleries; Kingswood Collectors Exchange M.B.S. #2 6/88:7524;
Austin Ryer; Superior Galleries 1/90:520; Robert E. Matthews (Matthews
Money Tree Co.) - Early American Coppers 4/1999:336 - Goldberg Coins
& Collectibles, Inc.'s "Benson Collection, Part I", 02/2001:385, $1,150.00
Del Bland graded Sharpness
of VF-30 but tooled in the hair. J. G. Macallister 6/1944 as "Unc." at
$25 - Goldberg Coins
& Collectibles, Inc.'s "Benson Collection, Part I", 02/2001:386,
$460.00
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"Penny Whimsy" by Dr. William H. Sheldon
"Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of
Early United States Cents 1793-1814" by Walter Breen
Relevant collector
organizations:
Early American Coppers Club
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