The 2024 EAC Convention Auction

Frosty with just a touch of rub that exposed the base metal on the highest points of the devices. Ex 2023 EAC Sale, Early Cents Auctions 6/24/2023:24

Glossy chocolate brown. The surfaces are a bit uneven but this electrotype copy is essentially as made. An original of this CONFEDERATIO copper is n

Lustrous mint red. A well executed copy produced circa 1948 by Henry Evans for the Tatham Stamp & Coin Company. Ex Harold Hess-2020 EAC Sale, ...

Sharpness VF35 or better, essentially as made, but there is a patch of dark carbon centered on the T in CENT. The copies do not have the silver cente

Frosty light silvery gray with a few patches of darker crud in protected areas on the obverse. The date and legends are complete and clear. A type o

Smooth with strong details but both sides have been burnished and the rim over IBE has been smoothed. Otherwise nice with a strong date and devices a

Dull reddish brown and steel mixed with medium steel brown. Covered with fine to moderate roughness and there are traces of dark scale on the cheek a

Very slightly sharper, especially on the obverse, but there is a scuff of light scratches on the 94 in the date and a dent over the T in CENT. Slight

Sharpness VF20 but covered with fine to moderate granularity under slightly glossy dark olive brown and steel toning. The highpoints on the obverse a

Thin Planchet with Lettered Edge. Sharpness VF25 but dark olive and steel with patches of pitting on the obverse and fine granularity elsewhere. No

Slightly sharper but covered with fine roughness mixed with a couple stronger patches of corrosion on the obverse. The area at IBER is distorted by t

Sharpness near VF20 but burnished and partly retoned glossy golden tan blending to light olive and reddish brown in protected areas. The planchet is

Struck over a TAL Cent. Glossy medium chocolate brown and steel. Smooth with trivial contact marks. Undertype from the TAL Cent is clearest in the

Slightly glossy olive brown with lighter steel brown on the devices. Smooth and void of marks, just worn. Nice for the grade. EDS before any swelli

Sharpness F12 but there are several old scratches on both sides including one on the cap, a few more on the neck and hair, and a curved one over the C

Glossy medium chocolate brown and steel. The fields and protected areas show microscopic granularity and there are a couple minor marks at the back o

Frosty medium brown and light chocolate. There are some microscopic hairlines on the obverse but to call this piece "Cleaned" appears off...

Glossy olive and steel brown. Smooth and very attractive, just worn. The only marks, and they are insignificant, are a small nick on the bust and an

Lightly corroded and burnished, the smoothing strongest on the portrait in an attempt to eliminate a few vertical scratches that are faint now. No ve

Slightly sharper with three tiny ticks in the field before the mouth. Very lightly cleaned. Frosty medium steel brown. EDS, Manley state 1.0. Shar