1798    S-161               R2       VF25                                       $ 1,650
VF30 Chocolate and light steel. Very nicely cleaned and retoned.

         
            CC LEVEL 1798 S-162  

1798    S-162               R4       VF25                                       $ 4,750
Style II with Small 8. Five points sharper with a few light contact marks, including a fine diagonal hairline scratch in the field left of the hair ribbon. Attractive frosty chocolate and steel brown with a splash of reddish brown toning at ERI to the leaves below. M-LDS. Breen state II. The swelling in the obverse fields is strong. Noyes photo #27739 and tied for CC#7 in his census. Ex. Sidney E. Levinson, Stack’s 4/88:128.

1798    S-171               R4       VG10                                      $   750
F12 Nice brown. Some field marks. LDS with rim cud K11 obverse.

 
1798    S-176               R4       F15                                          $ 2,000
Style II with Small 8. Five points sharper with too many light contact marks for the higher grade. Glossy chocolate brown speckled with darker chocolate and olive. E-MDS.

1798    S-180               R5+     F12                                          $ 2,250
Style II Hair with Small 8. Sharpness VF35 but lightly corroded strongest on the reverse. Slightly glossy dark olive and steel  with lighter steel highpoints. MDS, Breen state III, with a strong cud break over ATE.

 
1798    S-182               R4       F15                                          $ 1,050
Style II Hair Small 8. Sharper by at least 5 points with a rim bruise before the chin and faint roughness covering the planchet. The eye appeal of this cent is nice. Mostly glossy olive and brown.

1799/8   S-188             R4       AG3+                                      $ 3,500
Steel brown. Fully readable date and LIBERTY. Some weakness K2 reverse.

 
1799    S-189               R2       G6                                           $ 4,250
VG8 Dark chocolate steel. A few tiny pits but sharp date and some hard detail.

ATTRACTIVE 1799 S-189

 1799    S-189               R2       VG10                                      $14,000
Nice chocolate steel fields with tan devices. Maybe a couple points sharper. A couple tiny field scratches reverse. Exceptional eye appeal for the grade. A very respectable example.

 
1799    S-189                           PCGS VF20                            $34,500
Exceptional for a cent of this date. Full consistent strike with a full sharp LIBERTY and a complete fully struck date with both knobs of the nines sharp. The reverse is also full and sharp. Light brown color with smooth surfaces. Fully Very Fine 20+ by EAC standards and one of the nicest 1799s I have handled.