1807/6 Draped Bust Cent. S-272. Rarity-5+. Small 7, Blunt 1. VF Details--Burnished (NGC).Dark cooper-brown with light, uniform porosity to both sides. Struck slightly off center, although all devices are bold, and there is sharper detail remaining to the more protected features of Libertys portrait. A few minor marks are scattered about, the most significant of which are in the reverse field above the letter E in CENT. Evidence to support the NGC qualifier of "Burnished" is lacking; a better descriptive in our opinion would be "Granular." Breen Die State II. Formerly certified Fine-15 by PCGS (1993), Del Bland grades this coin EAC Fine-15 and ranks it CC#6 for this scarce and conditionally challenging die variety. Noyes and the Breen large cent encyclopedia also say EAC Fine-15 and tied for CC#6. From the Collection of Thaddeus A. Tatum III. Earlier ex Overton Coin Co.s sale of June 1960, lot 890; Ray Chatham; Dorothy I. Paschal; Ray Chatham; Del Bland, December 1977; Denis W. Loring, December 1977; C. Douglas Smith, March 1987; Superiors sale of the G. Lee Kuntz Collection, October 1991, lot 306; Chris Victor-McCawley; Bowers and Merena Galleries, privately, 1991; our (Bowers and Merenas) sale of the Dr. John A. Van Arsdall Collection, January 1993, lot 234; Dr. John A. Van Arsdall; Evan Kopald; Heritages sale of the Adam Mervis Large Cent Collection, January 2014, lot 2836.
