Large Cents 1802 S-235 R3 AU53 PCGS. Glossy steel and

Large Cents
1802 S-235 R3 AU53 PCGS. Glossy steel and olive brown on the devices with frosty tan and light brown faded down from mint color in protected areas. A beautiful, lightly worn cent with one exception: there is a dull but obvious scratch from the nose into the field. Otherwise only minor contact marks, mostly on the obverse. Rare E-MDS, Breen state II, with fine die clashmarks under the chin but none at RTY. Graded EF45 net EF40 and tied for CC#7 in the Noyes census, his photo #28581. Bland says EF45 and tied for CC#7. This cataloger's EAC grade is net EF40. Comes with a long, impressive provenance. The attribution and Husak Collection provenance are noted on the PCGS Gold Shield label. PCGS population 2; 3 finer: 1 in 55, 1 in 62, 1 in 63+. 36314.53/40245551.
Ex Wayte Raymond 1926-George H. Clapp-Howard R. Newcomb, J. C. Morgenthau & Co. #458, 2/7/1945:368-Judge Thomas L. Gaskill, New Netherlands Coin Co. (privately) 11/1956-Dorothy I. Paschal 1972-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 9/30/1986:348-Herman Halpern, Stack's 3/17/1987:150-R. E. Matthews, Superior 5/28/1989:420-R. S. Brown, Jr., Superior 1/27/1996:329-Wesley A. Rasmussen, Heritage Auctions 1/13/2005:3283-Walter J. Husak, Heritage Auctions 2/15/2008:2238-Walter J. Husak Collection.

The founder and president of ALCOA, the Aluminum Company of America, George Hubbard Clapp was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1858. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, he was president of the school's Board of Trustees and its oldest living alumnus at the time of his death on March 31, 1949. Clapp was also on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Institute, to which he donated his collection of sea shells. He began collecting coins at a young age and was the founder of the Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Society. Clapp formed one of the finest large cent collections ever assembled, and donated his entire first-line collection to the American Numismatic Society in the late 1940s. Clapp was the author of The United States Cents of the Years 1798-1799, The United States Cents 1804-1814, and co-author of The Cents of the Years 1795-1796-1797-1800 with Howard Newcomb.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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