With the impressive Colonel Ellsworth, Garrett, Simpson pedigree and stunning eye appeal, this coin will serve as a centerpiece to any major collection, just as it has throughout its history. Specimens of these several ways of making the cent will be delivered to the Committee of Congress now having that subject before them.” This superlative Judd-1 Silver Center Cent PCGS MS67 BN CAC is a true American Numismatic treasure of museum quality. He will then make a copper alone of the same size and lastly he will make the real cent, as ordered by congress, four times as big. Rittenhouse is to make a few by mixing the same plug by fusion with the same quantity of copper. Jefferson has the honor to send the President 2 cents maid on Voigt’s plan, by putting a plug of silver worth ¾ of a cent into a copper worth ¼ of a cent. Jefferson sent a note with two examples to President Washington which said, “Th. Mint in Philadelphia, on December 17, 1792. The Silver Center Cent is one of the most famous and historic pieces of the 1792 issues, a concept that was conceived by Thomas Paine in a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1790, and struck in limited numbers within the confines of the first U.S. Simpson for $5 million! The next finest is the Norweb-Jung coin which is now graded MS65 that was reportedly “bought back” by the consignor for $2 million in the August 2014 Heritage auction. At the 2012 FUN convention, Legend Numismatics sold this coin to Mr. This coin has not sold publicly since March 1981. Garrett-intermediaries-Bob Simpson, is the absolute top of the census. Exceptionally rare, there are fourteen traced examples, of which this, the Col. There are a few, very minor inclusions in the planchet, as made, otherwise the surfaces are of exceptional color and quality! This gorgeous coin ranks up there with the Rittenhouse-Cardinal MS68 half disme and Floyd Starr SP67 half disme for the absolute finest survivor of the 1792 pattern coins. The surfaces are distinctly reflective copper brown, showing a clear, semi-prooflike texture. For a coin, struck during the earliest days of the mint, the planchet was carefully prepared, dies polished, and given a precision strike. This coin has a chiseled strike, each hair curl, dentil and vast majority of leaves full rendered by the pressure from the newly installed screw press. Struck in medal turn, with a reeded edge, as usually seen. The act of Congress that created the Mint also provided for the weight standards of each denomination. The silver center cent planchet is made of copper with an intrinsic value of ¼ of a cent, with a silver plug in the center with the intrinsic value of ¾ of a cent. This is coin is a real tangible link to the famous founders of our great nation, men whose names are familiar and well recognized: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Henry Voigt, and David Rittenhouse. Just 12,689 were sold, making the medal a relatively low mintage item.Legend Numismatics is honored and humbled to offer the FINEST example of this extremely rare pattern issue from the earliest days of the U.S. The only way to get the silver medal was in this set. Mint offered the Philadelphia set, consisting of Proof American Eagle gold tenth-ounce, quarter-ounce and half-ounce coins, a Proof American Eagle silver dollar and an undated silver version of the medal. While both 1.5-inch and 3-inch bronze versions of the medal show this error, the gaffe was corrected in 1993 when an undated silver version was made. Upon release, there was an outcry from collectors who noted that the 1932-S Washington quarter dollar depicted on the coin showed its Mint mark on obverse - the position used for coins struck in 1968 and later. It was Rogers’ first assignment at the Mint. Engraver Thomas Rogers modeled the design based on the winning entry. Nine show obverses of coins in their first years of issue. The reverse shows a collage of 15 different U.S. Dual dated, 1792–1992, it depicts John Ward Dunsmore’s painting Inspecting the First Coinage on obverse.įormer Chief Engraver Frank Gasparro sculptured the design based on the winning contest submission. Designs were chosen from entries from Mint employees. The Mint did sell a bronze Bicentennial medal in 1992. Jimmy Hayes of Louisiana in 1993 introduced legislation for a three-coin commemorative coin program to mark the Mint’s anniversary. Over 1 million were sold, and the Mint has continued to offer a Silver Proof set every year since. Also of note, the Silver Coin Proof Sets Act of 1990, which authorized the Mint to strike these coins, similarly doesn’t mention the Mint’s anniversary.Ĭollectors nonetheless greeted the set with enthusiasm. The packaging, however, makes no mention of this anniversary. At time of issue, the 1992 Silver Proof set was widely marketed as a new offering to commemorate the Mint’s Bicentennial.
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