Large Cents 1798 S-158 R4 Style I Hair, Small 8, MS63 Brown PCGS

Large Cents
1798 S-158 R4 Style I Hair, Small 8, MS63 Brown PCGS. Glossy olive brown with lighter chocolate brown toning in protected areas, especially on the reverse. Satiny mint frost covers the protected areas and the eye appeal of this cent is excellent. The only defects are some small nicks, mostly in the field off the chin and on the truncation above the 9. Sharply struck EDS, Breen state I, with a faint die crack passing through the tops of UNITED STATES. Regraded MS60 and CC#1 in the current Bland census. Noyes says AU50 and CC#2 in his census, photo #28653. This cataloger's EAC grade is MS60 net AU58 for the small nicks. The attribution and Ralls-Husak Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS Gold Shield label. PCGS population 1; none finer. 36038.63/28432375.
Ex 1957 ANA Sale, Federal Coin Exchange, 8/21/1957:848-Dorothy I. Paschal 4/27/1972-R. Tettenhorst 8/1993 (via Ray Chatham)-Dr. Philip W. Ralls-Ralls Estate, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/26/2014:512-The Liberty Cap Foundation.

The late Bernard Edison used the pseudonym R. Tettenhorst for his numismatic activities. The real "R. Tettenhorst" was his executive secretary and Edison originally chose the use of that name so that she could sign for packages that he received. Rose Mary Huehnerhoff was the daughter of Walter and Clara (Werminghaus) Huehnerhoff, born in Missouri on November 21, 1936. Her father was an assistant foreman for a shoe manufacturing concern in 1940, per the Federal Census, earning an annual salary of $1,800. Rose lived with her parents, her sisters, Loretta and Joan, and her brother Walter. The family resided at 5055 Geraldine in St. Louis according to that record. She married Dale Tettenhorst who died suddenly on January 3, 1978 when he was just 43 years old. She was a past president of Professional Secretaries International and associated with the Institute for Certifying Secretaries, according to a notice in the February 9, 1988 St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Rose died on November 16, 1989, just five days shy of her 53rd birthday.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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