Large Cents 1796 S-103 R4+ Draped Bust with LIHERTY Error, AU

Large Cents
1796 S-103 R4+ Draped Bust with LIHERTY Error, AU Detail, Surfaces Smoothed, PCGS. A very sharp cent that was lightly burnished and nicely retoned glossy medium chocolate brown with lighter brown in protected areas on the reverse. There is a trace of extremely fine roughness hidden in the hair left of the neck, a tiny dimple on the jaw, a small flake under the eye, and a pit or small punch mark in the dentils over the left side of the Y in LIBERTY. EDS, Breen state I. The die crack through AMERIC is faint. Graded EF40 net VF20 and CC#7 in the Noyes census, his photo #22397. Bland says AU50 net VF35 and CC#6. This cataloger's EAC grade is net VF35. A very attractive cent in spite of the defects, and the LIHERTY error is bold. Comes with a very nice provenance. The attribution is noted on the PCGS label. 35882.98/47250189.
Ex Charles J. DuPont, Stack's (Anderson DuPont Sale) 9/24/1954:133-Dorothy I. Paschal-Dr. William H. Sheldon 1955-Dorothy I. Paschal 1972-R. S. Brown, Jr., 9/30/1986:137-Dr. C. R. Chambers-Dennis Mendelson 7/15/1991-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 1/27/1996:144-Walter J. Husak Collection.

Early American Coppers member number 190 was Dr. Carol Rudolph Chambers of Union City, Indiana, whose affinity for the earliest American large cents places his pedigree on a number of Condition Census coins. Dr. Chambers was born in Union City on April 18, 1931 and died in Winchester, Indiana on July 15, 2007. He was the son of Dr. Leroy B. and Eleanor Aletha (Greene) Chambers. He attended Indiana University.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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