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10.1 grains. 14.8 mm. A highly pleasing specimen of this popular denomination. Even medium
gray with dark encrustation outlining obverse devices to positive effect. The fields are
smooth and pleasing, free of problems, just a tiny nick under the first I of the
denomination. Very well centered and showing full legends on both sides. A generous amount
of the beaded periphery is present, giving this coin particularly choice eye appeal. The
reverse linear crack through the date digits is present but weak, perhaps due to an early
die state close to the rare Noe-33 or perhaps just worn. Either way, the aesthetic appeal
of this piece will carry it to an honored spot in a well-formed cabinet.John Roper, Laird
U. Park, and John H. Clapp all went to the same small private high school in the
cataloguer's hometown of Pottstown, Pennsylvania. An attraction to early American coins
may be in the water there; Henry Chapman had a significant consignment of 1794 cents
(among nearly 400 total large cents) from Amos Van Buskirk of the same town in 1917. There
is seemingly an extraordinary concentration of passionate numismatic interest associated
with a town that in 1910 was home to about 15,000 people and today consists of about
20,000.From our sale of the John L. Roper, 2nd Collection, December 1983, Lot 25. The
original lot ticket accompanies this lot.
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