1804 DRAPED BUST CENT
PCGS No: 1504
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 96,500
Proofs: 0
Designer: Robert Scot
Diameter: ±28 millimeters
Metal content:
Copper - 100%
Weight: ±168 grains
(±10.9 grams)
Edge: Plain
Mintmarks: None (all
examples of this type were struck at the Philadelphia Mint)
Notes:
The finest 1804 Large Cent
graded by PCGS is a single MS-62BN.
The "Restrike"
combines an altered obverse of 1803 Sheldon
261 and a reverse of 1820
Newcomb 12 (Sheldon mis-identified it as a die of 1818; Dr. Charles
McGirk mis-identified it as a reverse of 1810). This reverse die
was also used to "restrike" 1810 Large Cents in Tin.
1804 DRAPED BUST CENT
Reprinted with permission from Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents 1793-1814, by Walter Breen, edited by Mark R. Borckardt
As in 1803, this year began with ample supplies of Boulton planchets on hand (nearly 1,600,000), and several pairs of unused dies (1803 obverses and Large Letters reverses).
On May 25, Boudinot ordered more blanks from Boulton: about 20 tons, half for cents, the rest for half cents....
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Images courtesy of Dirk
Loebbers
Varieties (1):
Sheldon 266 - Common
Copper "Restrike" - Common
Tin "Restrike" - Extremely Rare
1804 "Restrike" in Copper
and Tin - believed to have been
struck circa 1860 by Joseph Mickley and Edward Cogan using an altered
1803 obverse and a reverse of 1820! Tin examples are extremely
rare.
Recent appearances:
Restrike. Ex - Bowers & Merena Galleries' "The Cabinet of Lucien M.
LaRiviere, Part II", March 15-17, 2001, Lot 2501, sold for $368.00
Restrike. Ex - Bowers & Merena Galleries' "The Cabinet of Lucien M.
LaRiviere, Part II", March 15-17, 2001, Lot 2502, sold for $253.00
Sources and/or recommended reading:
"The PCGS Population Report, April 2005" by The Professional
Coin Grading Service
"Penny Whimsy" by Dr.
William H. Sheldon
"Walter Breen's
Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents 1793-1814" by Walter Breen
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