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Hello Everyone! I hope that you're enjoying a very Merry Christmas! This coin is for sale ending Sunday, and I'm having a Dickens of a time trying to attribute it to a Sheldon #. There are only five varieties: the S-1 has the AMERI rev, so it isn't that one; the other four share a common reverse. The NC-1 has the widest LIBERTY, so nope to that; the S-2 has a divided date and strikes a very shallow impression, so no; the S-4 has a flattop date. That leaves the S-3 variety by default. and I just can't reconcile it to that: the strong base of the 1/1793 (and just look at that 9!). LIBERTY is tooled to death, the hair locks, etc. What do you think?  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very nice Chain Cent!  Don't know much about them, but I do like them. Errers and Varietys.
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same here, don't know much about these, but that one above is a nice one.
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Auction ending Sunday night - so far a battle between bidder 4 and bidder 8.
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Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
12/26/2025 7:27 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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To paraphrase Scrooge: "There's more of Gallery Mint than of US Mint about you, whatever you are!"
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Very nice!  |
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In fact, there is no known obv. Chain variety where the 9 punch is orientated to the right (left or right of a 12:00 perpendicularity of the 9); this fooled just about everyone. There was a robust discussion about this coin on a Large Cent-dedicated social media page. Very interesting. Many thought this suffered massive re-engraving
Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
12/28/2025 3:39 pm
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Sold for a total of $10,518.75
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Interesting. The reverse looks correct for an S-3, but the obverse is clearly different. The letter positioning in LIBERTY is off as well. New unrecognized obverse die? Or an incredibly deceitful counterfeit? Did PCGS drop the ball?
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Posted 12/25/2025 9:53 pm
