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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 7765786, member: 21705&quot;]<a href="https://www.icollector.com/A-display-of-5-Gallery-Mint-products-reproductions-to_i8599228" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.icollector.com/A-display-of-5-Gallery-Mint-products-reproductions-to_i8599228" rel="nofollow">https://www.icollector.com/A-display-of-5-Gallery-Mint-products-reproductions-to_i8599228</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It was a 1796 NC-7.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;There is a fourth impression from this pair of dies, but it hardly counts as an example of the NC-7 die variety. It is actually a half cent struck over a cut-down example of this large cent variety, and the stemless wreath feature is not present as that part of the design is off the smaller planchet. The significance of the half cent is that it validated the tooled Clapp coin in the ANS as the only known example (at that time) of a distinct variety. Dr. Sheldon listed the ANS coin in his Early American Cents published in 1949 as &quot;NC-6&quot;. When he published Penny Whimsy in 1958 Dr. Sheldon was sufficiently skeptical of the tooled coin that he &quot;delisted&quot; the variety, believing it was created by tooling some other known die variety.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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