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Lot:5077 1833 Classic Head Half Cent. Cohen-1, Breen-1. Rarity-5 as a Proof. Proof-66 RB (PCGS).

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The building is of white marble, from designs furnished by Mr. Strickland. - Atkinsons Casket, describing the Second Philadelphia Mint, October 1831Pale green and golden highlights gather in the obverse fields, the only region where the rich original mint color has measurably mellowed. The reverse is particularly bright with salmon-rose mint color and bold reflectivity. Struck firmly enough to exact the raised die finish lines from Libertys portrait, as well as every other major and minor detail, this half cent offers the prototypical rendition of the design type. A fairly long squiggly lintmark is seen on the reverse above CE. Post-striking flaws are all fairly minor, including some insignificant scattered hairlines, a tiny nick on the rim above U of UNITED, and two spots that show evidence of manual diminishing, near star 12 and just above the front of Libertys coronet. The aesthetic appeal is excellent, even for a coin of this lofty grade. While a die crack extends from star 2 to beyond star 7, no clash marks are seen on either side, marking this as earlier than Manley 1.0. The Missouri Cabinet included two Proof 1833 half cents, one in this particularly early die state, the other in a later clashed state. Manley notes that a few examples are known with a perfect uncracked obverse, and "some with the obverse crack are found without clash marks (e.g. Eliasberg I:447), but most appear to be from the same die state as the earliest business strikes," his state 1.0.The Second Philadelphia Mint, located at Juniper and Chestnut streets, produced all half cents from 1833 until the curtain came down on the denomination in 1857. Construction began on the new structure in 1829, starting with a ceremony planting the cornerstone in the ground on July 4 of that year. Beginning with a "liberal provision ... made for its accomplishment" from the Congress, the new building was conceived as a "temple of numisma," in the words of Joel Orosz and Leonard Augsburger in The Secret History of the First US Mint. Orosz discovered the first printed description of the new structure in the pages of a somewhat obscure Philadelphia periodical, variously called The Casket and Atkinsons Casket, whose prime claim to fame is its history as a forerunner to a magazine that Edgar Allan Poe edited. Orosz published the October 1831 description of the Second Philadelphia Mint in the pages of The Asylum in April-June 2010. The descriptions exactness is noteworthy, particularly considering the structure was not completed until at least 18 months later.The Second Philadelphia Mint began full scale coin production in January 1833, aided by a complement of brand new machinery. The First Mint remained active through 1832, so its machinery remained in the structure; those mills and presses were sold after the old structure closed its doors. The new lot was enormous, spanning 150 feet along Chestnut Street and 204 on Juniper, and the white marble building by architect William Strickland nearly filled it. The October 1831 description of the new Mint, which likely came from Strickland himself, records that "the building consists of a basement, principal, and attic stories," all topped with a roof "entirely of copper." A circular lobby allowed for easy access to the offices of the Mints various managers, and hallways led to the stairs up to the rooms occupied by the assayers and engravers on the attic floor. The "principal coining room," as The Casket termed it, "extends 37 feet by 32, being sufficiently capacious to contain ten coining presses." The entire coining department consisted of several rooms, or apartments, measuring 137 feet long in total; it is unknown if Proofs like this were struck in the main coining space or in another setting nearby.Modern students of Proof coinage also have no good idea how many 1833 Proof half cents were struck. Rick Coleman, a researcher who specialized in Proof half cents, recorded just five examples on his census, while Walter Breen guessed that 50 were known. Generations ago many prooflike circulation strikes were routinely offered as "Proof," vastly inflating the seeming population of genuine Proofs. PCGS population data indicates that the firm has graded a Proof example on 26 occasions; they estimate that "30-40" are known. Public offerings occur only occasionally, and gems are the exception rather than the rule. The two grading events at PCGS for Proof-66 RB may both be the same coin. No other examples in any color designation have been graded finer than Proof-65.

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