1795 C-6b R6 No Pole on Thick Planchet VF25+. Glossy reddish chocolate and steel with steel brown toning on the highpoints. The surfaces are smooth and free of any distractions, which is especially important for a variety that usually comes with significant defects. The best identifying marks, and they are trivial, are four very faint parallel hairlines across the neck and a small spot of slightly darker toning above the L in LIBERTY. The edge of the planchet is slightly beveled before the face indicating the planchet was cut out too close to the edge of a spoiled large cent. Nicely struck EDS, Manley state 1.0, with no trace of swelling right of the Y in LIBERTY. Called CC#3 in the Jim McGuigan and Mike Spurlock condition census lists. A very important example of this rare variety, clearly superior to either of the Breen plate coins. Weight 105.8 grains (versus the rolled planchet standard of 84.0 grains).
Estimated Value $10,000-UP.
Ex David B. Silberman, Jr., Bowers & Merena 11/16/1988:6009 (where incorrectly attributed as Breen-6a)-Jim McGuigan 1/89-Dr. Wallace Lee, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 5/25/2003:116.
The Whister Collection
