Early Cents Auctions - The Neil Rothschild Collection

Choice glossy light olive brown with lighter brown toning on the devices. Essentially flawless with smooth surfaces and outstanding eye appeal. The

Glossy light chocolate brown with lighter brown toning on the devices. No notable roughness, just a small planchet flake at the rim over the first C

Choice glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Satiny mint frost shows in the protected areas and this piece has outstanding eye appeal. A bit soft

Very Fine from a technical perspective when looking at the properly struck areas, but nearly half of the devices are very weakly struck (which is quit

Slightly glossy medium brown and light chocolate with a streak of reddish brown toning down the profile on the obverse. Fine granularity covers the p

Beautiful frosty light to medium chocolate brown with tiny peeps of faded mint red visible around ET LIB. The surfaces are smooth except for the usua

Glossy light to medium brown blending to light chocolate in protected areas. The highpoints are smooth while the fields and protected areas are cover

Sharpness Very Fine but there are traces of greenish verdigris on both sides. Some of the verdigris was lightly scratched in an attempt to remove it,

Technically Very Fine but unevenly struck with severe weakness at the top of the obverse and the opposing area at the bottom of the reverse. In addit

Technical grade is EF40 but the strike is uneven, quite weak at the bottom of the obverse and the opposing area at the top of the reverse. The surfac

Slightly better from a technical standpoint but the nose is softly struck. Glossy light to medium brown with darker chocolate brown toning in protect

Rather glossy medium brown with chocolate brown in protected areas. Most of the planchet is smooth but there are areas of fine roughness on both side

Technically Very Fine but there are numerous small rim dents around both sides. Rather glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Most of the planchet

Frosty medium steel brown. Satiny mint luster covers the protected areas. Just a hint of friction on the highest points from mint state. The only d

Choice glossy light chocolate brown with lighter brown toning on the highpoints of the devices. Smooth and very attractive, essentially flawless exce

A beautiful piece with lustrous fields and choice light to medium brown toning. Has mint state eye appeal but there is a touch of friction on the hig

Sharpness closer to extremely fine but the surfaces are covered with microscopic roughness. Partly glossy dark olive brown and steel with lighter ste

Choice glossy medium brown and light chocolate. The surfaces are smooth and the eye appeal of this piece is excellent. The details are somewhat blun

Glossy light to medium brown with mostly smooth surfaces. No corrosion, verdigris, or significant contact marks. The only defects are a shallow fiss

Slightly sharper but covered with fine to moderate roughness and there is a significant planchet flaw at the shoulder that pierces the planchet (light

Glossy light to medium chocolate brown. The centers show only minor chipping and the central portion of the seated figure is well struck. There is a

Glossy light brown blending to medium brown in protected areas. Smooth and quite attractive, void of any notable defects other than being struck slig

Glossy light olive and medium brown blending to darker olive brown in protected areas. This is a variety that must be graded from the reverse; the ob

Sharper from a technical perspective but areas of very fine roughness show on the obverse and the reverse was lightly cleaned. Much of the planchet i

Sharper but the upper half of the obverse is covered with fine roughness and there is shallow greenish olive verdigris around ORI. The upper half of

Rather glossy olive brown with lighter brown toning covering the devices. The surfaces are reasonably smooth but a glass reveals very fine granularit

Technically better but covered with uniform moderate roughness under glossy medium chocolate brown toning. The highpoints are a lighter shade of brow

Glossy medium brown blending to light chocolate in protected areas. The planchet is mostly smooth and the eye appeal is excellent, but there are a fe

Mostly glossy chocolate brown with lighter brown toning on the devices. Microscopic granularity covers the fields and protected areas while the highp

Glossy light to medium brown. The surfaces are mostly smooth but there are tiny planchet chips in the centers (as usual) plus a few more in the field

Slightly better from a technical perspective but there is some fine roughness with traces of verdigris at the top of the bouquet plus faint traces of

Glossy medium brown and light chocolate with smooth surfaces and no notable planchet flaws, only microscopic chips of no significance. Another piece

Glossy light golden brown blending to medium brown and light chocolate in protected areas. The highpoints are smooth but microscopic granularity cove

Cleaned and partly retoned glossy golden tan and light olive. Fine hairlines show on both sides, strongest on the highpoints, but it takes a glass to

Technically a bit better but there is a deep fissure on the chest of the seated figure that created a depression at the opposing spot on the obverse a

Glossy medium brown with slightly darker steel brown toning on the highpoints. The obverse is a bit better, the reverse weaker thanks to a worn-out d

Choice glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Satiny mint frost covers the fields and protected areas and this piece has outstanding eye appeal. J

An ET LIR variety. Frosty medium brown and light chocolate. Mint frost shows in the protected areas, particularly on the reverse. There is a signif

Glossy medium brown blending to light chocolate in protected areas. Traces of frost show in protected areas and this piece offers excellent eye appea

Glossy medium brown and light chocolate with a few protected areas showing darker chocolate brown toning. Smooth except for the usual chipping in the

Slightly glossy dark olive brown with light brown toning on the highpoints. Extremely fine granularity covers all but the highpoints of the devices.

Choice glossy light to medium brown blending to light chocolate in protected areas. Satiny mint frost covers the fields and protected areas and this

Frosty medium brown with a thin streak of darker brown toning through CO in CONNEC. The planchet is mostly smooth with just a bit of chipping on the

Technically sharper, perhaps EF40, but dark with patches of shallow corrosion and verdigris on both sides. Looks like a piece that was rescued from s

Technically a bit sharper but covered with fine roughness. No verdigris or contact marks. A shallow lamination fissure reaches from the throat to th

Glossy light olive and steel brown blending to darker brown in protected areas. Reasonably smooth but there are some fissures and tiny planchet chips

Attractive glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Mostly smooth but there are some tiny planchet chips on the portrait and a larger void in the cen

Glossy medium brown and light chocolate. Mostly smooth with minor chipping on both sides, a larger chip at the rim below the shoulder, and a small bu

A bit sharper but dark and granular with traces of verdigris in some of the protected areas. Slightly glossy dark chocolate brown and olive. The onl

Choice glossy medium brown and light chocolate. The surfaces are smooth, even in the centers, and the only flaws are a tiny lamination at the 17 in t

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