Large Cents 1800/79 S-193 R4 Overdate 80 over 79, Style II Hair,

Large Cents
1800/79 S-193 R4 Overdate 80 over 79, Style II Hair, MS63 Brown PCGS. Lustrous golden tan with darker steel brown toning on the highpoints and subtle hints of light bluish steel overtone in protected areas. The surfaces are satiny and this cent has great eye appeal. The only notable marks are a light vertical scuff in the field left of the upper end of the hair ribbon, two tiny scratches at the curls left of the neck, and a dull nick or planchet chip under the I in UNITED. The scuff left of the hair ribbon is the only mark that catches your eye; otherwise this cent is choice. E-MDS, Breen state II, with a fine die crack through UN to the fraction bar extending faintly to the adjacent A. Strong die clashmarks show at ICA, but there is no crack through the denominator and no cud breaks. The overdate feature is bold. This is the finest example of the variety by a wide margin in the Bland and Noyes census lists. Bland says MS61 and finest by 16 points; Noyes says AU55 and finest by 20 points, his photo #21895. This cataloger's EAC grade is MS60. This is the plate coin for the die variety in Dr. Sheldon's Penny Whimsy and in the 1991 Noyes reference. Comes with an important provenance. The attribution and Doug Bird Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS Gold Shield label. PCGS population 1; none finer. 36158.63/37114439.
Discovered in England-New Netherlands Coin Co. (privately) 5/24/1951-C. Douglas Smith 1/1957-Dr. William H. Sheldon 4/19/1972-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., 2/23/1992-Eric Streiner 4/1992-John B. MacDonald 8/1999-Wesley A. Rasmussen, Heritage Auctions 1/13/2005:3227-Douglas F. Bird Collection, Goldbergs 2/16/2020:69-Walter J. Husak Collection.

With an Associate's Degree in commercial photography, Lyle Engleson began his career with Superior Galleries in 1991 and went on to head the Photography and Design department for Goldbergs/McCawley-Grellman (since 1998). Today he is associated with Chris Victor-McCawley and Early Cents Auctions. He has documented and photographed some of the greatest collections ever formed including the collections of Ted Naftzger, Dan Holmes, and the Missouri Cabinet Collection. More recently, he photographed collections from Del and Larry Bland and former ANA president Steve Ellsworth. He is also the official photographer for The Tyrant collection, the most valuable private coin collection ever formed. Initially working in black-and-white with Polaroid equipment, Engleson was at the forefront of digital color photography. He was a recipient of the NLGs Award for Best Auction Catalog of the year five times as well as the Book of the Year award twice. He is married to Yvonne Engleson and has one son, Eli. He resides in Ventura, California.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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