Early Cents Auctions - The Neil Rothschild Collection

A "Snipe Nose" variety. Glossy medium brown and light chocolate with a puff of darker reddish chocolate toning on the eye. The surfaces ...

A "Snipe Nose" variety. Glossy tan and light olive with reddish brown toning in protected areas. Most of the planchet is smooth but the ...

Choice glossy medium brown with some light chocolate brown toning in protected areas. The surfaces are smooth except for a few trivial planchet chips

Double Struck. An "ET LIR" variety. Glossy medium brown and light chocolate with darker chocolate toning in protected areas. The surfac...

An "ET LIR" variety. Glossy reddish brown and chocolate with darker olive brown toning in protected areas. No notable roughness or planc...

Glossy light to medium brown with a couple small puffs of darker reddish brown toning on both sides. There are small planchet voids on both sides inc

Sharper but dark and uniformly granular. Shallow verdigris surrounds many of the devices and there is a thin fissure down the front edge of the neck.

Double Struck. An "ET LIR" variety. Glossy medium brown with light reddish chocolate toning in protected areas. There is minor chipping ...

Double Struck. Glossy light olive and steel brown. Smooth with just a few trivial planchet flaws including a couple fine laminations that meander th

Very attractive glossy medium brown blending to chocolate brown in protected areas. The head and neck are softly struck as is the opposing lower half

Glossy steel brown and light chocolate. The surfaces are smooth and this piece has excellent eye appeal. There are trivial planchet chips on the nec

Considerably sharper but a bit rough with a couple dozen pits, mostly on the reverse. Some of the pits contain traces of verdigris but much of the pl

A solid Very Fine from a technical perspective but raised green corrosion and verdigris show on both sides, particularly on the reverse, and both side

Glossy medium steel brown and light chocolate. There is chipping on the portrait into the field behind the head and similar chipping on the lower hal

Mostly glossy light to medium brown blending to light chocolate in protected areas on the obverse. The surfaces are mostly smooth but there are tiny

Choice frosty medium brown blending to light chocolate in protected areas. A superior example in every respect. The centers show the usual planchet

Glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Mostly smooth but there is microscopic chipping on the portrait with stronger chipping on the lower half of

Glossy tan and light brown with medium chocolate brown toning in protected areas. Mint frost shows in the protected areas and this piece has excellen

Glossy medium brown with light chocolate toning in protected areas. Just a few small fissures on an otherwise smooth planchet. The only notable plan

Technically better, at least VF20, but covered with fine to moderate roughness and the planchet is bent thanks to a pinch on the rim at NN in CONNEC.

Glossy medium brown with light chocolate brown toning in protected areas. The surfaces are mostly smooth but minor chipping shows on both sides and t

Very attractive glossy light to medium brown. The surfaces are smooth with only trivial chipping and tiny nicks. The only notable marks are a few li

Technical grade near EF40 but the obverse is covered with extremely fine roughness that contains traces of very fine verdigris. The reverse is smooth

Glossy light olive and medium brown. Mostly smooth but there are planchet chips on the head and on the seated figure. Small voids can also be found

Brockage strike. Technically sharper but dark and covered with fine granularity under slightly glossy dark olive brown and chocolate toning. No verd

A nice Very Fine where the designs are properly struck up but the lower half of the obverse and upper part of the reverse are weakly struck (your cata

A bit sharper from a technical perspective but there is a dull scratch on the neck, a scuff of dull scratches at the rim near the feet of the seated f

Technically sharper, probably VF25, but pitted, strongest behind the portrait. Specks of greenish verdigris show in some of the pits and the pitting

Double Struck. Technically sharper where the designs are properly struck up but there is a dusting of fine carbon in the field before the chin and ne

An ET LIR variety. Glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Minor planchet chipping shows on the upper half of both sides, strongest at the eye of t

Technical sharpness of VF25 with details superior to the Perkins and Ford examples, but the planchet is covered with fine to moderate roughness on all

Rather glossy reddish steel brown and chocolate with medium brown toning on the devices. The surfaces are slightly granular with a few microscopic sp

Attractive glossy light brown with light to medium chocolate brown toning in protected areas. There is a bit of microscopic chipping on the neck and

Glossy olive and chocolate brown with lighter steel brown toning on the devices. The obverse is especially glossy thanks to a thin coat of lacquer.

Perhaps a bit sharper but there are specks of raised corrosion at AUCT and there is extremely faint granularity under the rather glossy chocolate brow

Rather glossy light to medium chocolate brown. The planchet is mostly smooth, especially on the reverse which is nearly flawless, but there is minor

At least ten points sharper but covered with uniform fine granularity. No verdigris and the only significant contact mark is a rim dent over CO. The

Mostly glossy reddish steel brown. Technically sharper where the devices were properly struck up but the head and lower part of the seated figure are

Choice glossy medium brown and light chocolate. The surfaces are smooth except for microscopic chipping at the throat and in the opposing area at the

Technically sharper but unevenly struck, weak at the top of the obverse and bottom of the reverse. Covered with fine roughness and there are traces o

Sharper by ten points but there are patches of shallow corrosion and verdigris on the obverse and microscopic roughness elsewhere on both sides. No n

Very attractive glossy tan and light brown blending to light olive and medium brown in protected areas. The planchet is smooth except for chipping on

An ET LIR variety. Glossy medium brown and light chocolate with light steel brown toning on the highpoints. Smooth except for the usual tiny planche

An ET IIB variety. Perhaps a bit better technically but the field behind the portrait is covered with fine carbon and the rest of the planchet is cov

Perhaps a bit better for sharpness but there is a small, deep planchet flaw on the head, a shallow one at NE in CONNEC, and two small ones on the glob

Slightly sharper but dull from uniform microscopic granularity. No verdigris and the only marks are an old, fine horizontal scratch from NE to the ba

An ET IIB variety. Significantly better from a technical perspective, sharper than the Taylor, Perkins, and Ford examples, but banged in the central

Perhaps a bit sharper than Fine but unevenly struck with myriad fine scratches on the right side of the reverse. Minor chipping covers much of the pl

Glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Hints of frost show in some of the protected areas and the eye appeal of this piece is excellent. There is

Technically sharper, close to EF40, but fine roughness covers most of the planchet. No verdigris. The notable marks are a horizontal void at the bac