1794 Liberty Cap Cent. S-19B. Rarity-4+. Head of 1793. VF Details--Cleaning (PCGS).A predominantly deep copper example with lighter golden-brown highlights evident on the obverse. For the reverse we note intermingled steel-red tinting as the coin rotated under a light. The obverse is nicely centered, although devoid of denticulation, while the reverse is trivially off center to 12:30. Mentionable softness of detail is confined to the upper reverse border, where the letters TES OF and faint, yet discernible. All other design elements are bold, and thee are no significant blemishes apart from a touch of glossiness and minor porosity. Breen Die State II. This scarce variety was discovered by Dr. Edward Maris sometime before 1869. The present example is graded EAC VF-20 in both the Bland and Noyes censuses, ranking CC#10 in the former and CC#11 in the latter. This is a conditionally challenging die marriage, the use of crude, dark planchets going a long way to explain the rarity of high grade survivors. From the Collection of Thaddeus A. Tatum III. Earlier ex Thomas D. Reynolds, March 1995, purchased unattributed on February 11, 1987 from Marian Wittenberg (Carlsbad Coins); Walter J. Husak; Denis W. Loring, April 2001; Jon Alan Boka; Heritages sale of the Jon Alan Boka Collection of 1794 Large Cents, September 2016, lot 5304. Collector envelope with attribution and provenance notes included.
