New Piece - 1843 Petite Head, Small Letters Large Cent

Catbert · October 27, 2023 5:51AM

Good morning! I attended the SCNA show yesterday and this coin caught my eye. There is something about these large sized old copper coins that are so attractive to me.

If you have a nice hunk of old copper, join in!

MS64+ CAC

Catbert · October 27, 2023 5:55AM

From the 2020 Stacks auction description:

LOT DESCRIPTION
1843 Braided Hair Cent. N-2, 7. Rarity-1. Petite Head, Small Letters. MS-64+ BN (PCGS). CAC.

A hard and satiny example with an overall smooth, nearly Gem-quality appearance to both sides. The strike is sharp throughout, and the surfaces are toned in glossy antique copper with a few swirls of slightly lighter color evident. A couple of dull obverse marks around star 1 are mentioned for provenance purposes. Grellman Die State b, cataloged in its Goldberg sale appearance as "the spur from the left base of the N in ONE is barely visible."

Provenance: Ex Del Bland, June 1968; Carl Windon, March 1988; Del Bland, April 1988; Bob Vail; Doug Bird and Tom Reynolds, February 1998; Phyllis Thompson; Ira & Larry Goldberg's Pre-Long Beach Auction of January 2010, lot 506; Heritage's FUN Signature Auction of January 2019, lot 3917.

Manifest_Destiny · October 27, 2023 6:07AM

Nice coin! The 39-43 petite heads are the best of the braided hair cents. They have a noticeably thinner rim and small letters which gives them a less "chunky" look.

Maywood · October 27, 2023 7:41AM

That's a really nice smooth skinned Large Cent with a nice provenance. Mine's not a coin but is one of my favorites with the brick-red tone. Despite what many say about "TrueView Glamour Shots" this is what it looks like in-hand.

robec · October 27, 2023 7:55AM

Great look on the large cent. These large cents have really grown on me the last couple of years. I wish I would have started picking up a few of these a few years ago.

RLSnapper · October 27, 2023 2:47PM

Very nice pick up....interesting provenance....I have this 1847 N-1 PCGS MS62BN that was also from Phyllis Thompson.

ThreeCentSilverFL · October 27, 2023 3:54PM

Smooth Chocolate Love. Very nice!

Walkerguy21D · October 27, 2023 4:44PM

Beautiful coin, Catbert!

Purchased from Gary Adkins eons ago. Never been to CAC, not sending it in for Reconsideration, yada yada.

kaz · October 27, 2023 5:40PM

Beautiful large cent, Catbert. I only have this one

Mr_Spud · October 27, 2023 7:28PM

All the coins shown above look great, here’s a couple of 58s

winesteven · October 27, 2023 8:47PM

GREAT pickup, Cat!

I don’t know the Provenance:

Steve

P0CKETCHANGE · October 28, 2023 4:57AM

I love it! Great looking surfaces.

Walkerguy21D · October 28, 2023 6:03AM

Here are the other two considerably scarcer major varieties of 1843.

The transitional coin, not in great condition but tough to find:

And the final product, mature head w/ large letters, that was kept until the end of the series. Was purchased raw from CVM and submitted by me some years ago:

renomedphys · October 28, 2023 9:24AM

Great coin! I still need an example of that type. Here’s a Matron Head I bought from Pierre Fricke In Pittsburgh. It has been pedigreed to EHR Green and EP Newman: