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Crosby Plate Coin
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1793 S-11a R4+ Wreath Cent, Vine & Bars Edge. PCGS graded AU-58.
CAC APPROVED
.
Variety with a Vine & Bars edge device. Frosty light to medium chocolate brown and steel with
subtle wisps of darker olive brown scattered over both sides. The only marks, and they are in-
significant, are a tiny pinprick close before the neck, a couple microscopic planchet flakes at the
dentils left of the L in LIBERTY, and a tiny splash of glue or something similar near the dentils
behind the head. Nicely struck EDS, Breen state I, before any die clashmarks. The border beads
are tight to the edge of the planchet on the lower right part of the reverse but they are complete
around both sides. Graded EF45 and CC#3 in the Noyes census, his photo #32750 (the CC#2
coin resides in the ANS collection). Bland has not seen this cent but is aware of it.
Our grade is
AU50.
The obverse of this cent is plated in the 1897 Sylvester S. Crosby book on the cents and
half cents of 1793. Comes with a nice provenance. The attribution and Naftzger-Reynolds prov-
enance are noted on the PCGS Secure label.
Pop 1; 1 finer in MS66 at PCGS for the variety
(PCGS # 35465)
Estimated Value ................................................................................................................$40,000-UP
Ex Edouard Frossard 9/1893-Thomas Hall 9/1909-Virgil M. Brand-New Netherlands Coin
Co. (privately) 1952-Dr. William H. Sheldon-Richard Picker 10/1955-James Sloss, Abe Kosoff
10/1959:9 (plated)-R. E. Naftzger, Jr., New Netherlands Coin Co. 11/14/1973:332-Julian Leidman-
R. Tettenhorst-Jim McGuigan-Kenneth Goldman-Tony Terranova-William Murray (Dynamic
Coin Investments)-Loren Barnett 12/1992.