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NEWP 1797 Penny Pattern
JCMhouston
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Last month was a good month for 1797 pennies for me, I picked up two proofs then a mint state example. This is one I picked up from the UK in December, really took a flyer on this one as it had poor images and was covered with gunk. After it arrived I soaked it several times in acetone (I think 4 or 5 trips total), it looked like several mixed layers of pvc and random gunk. This is the P1095 Bonzed Copper version, although Peck lists it only as very scarce it seems to me a little tougher than that. This is currently the only one graded at NGC, I had thought it would either come back excessive surface hairlines or thay might give it a 61, but it must have been a cloudy day since they gave it a PF63 BN.
The mirrors are really flashy on this example, the obverse fields are a lovely pale bronze and the rims and devices are brown with mint bronze remaining in the lettering, the reverse has more of the original branze color all over. I lit it with two lamps from top to bottom so the hairlines show up in the images, in hand it's really difficult to see them without a loupe.
The mirrors are really flashy on this example, the obverse fields are a lovely pale bronze and the rims and devices are brown with mint bronze remaining in the lettering, the reverse has more of the original branze color all over. I lit it with two lamps from top to bottom so the hairlines show up in the images, in hand it's really difficult to see them without a loupe.
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Very nice, BTW!
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