1791 Large Eagle Cent. Musante GW-15, Baker-15, W-10610. Rarity-2. Lettered Edge. Unc Details--Cleaned (PCGS).，This boldly to sharply defined example is retoning nicely in dominant olive-charcoal and golden-brown patina with a few glints of crimson in isolated peripheral areas. Wispy hairlines explain the PCGS qualifier, but there are no sizable or otherwise individually mentionable marks. Struck by John and Obadiah Westwood in England, the Washington Large Eagle cents were made to the order of John and Thomas Ketland, Philadelphia, and were intended to support their bid for a coinage contract for the new nation. Although these pieces undoubtedly influenced both Congress and the American public, the Ketlands failed to secure the contract and, in the end, the federal government established its own mint.，PCGS# 702. NGC ID: 2B6Z.，，From the LJV Philadelphia Collection. Earlier from Pine Tree Auctions GENA Sale of 1973, lot 72; Pine Tree Auctions Promised Lands Sale, 1974, lot 355.
