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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 2729151, member: 21705&quot;]There is a tendency among Early date collectors to emphasize obverses and then mention reverses; I would like to take the opposite approach. Each Stemless reverse is matched with two or three obverse so they account for many more varieties than the four and a half reverses. I call the 1801 half because it is only missing one stem, so is it really stemless?</p><p><br /></p><p>Stemless Reverse 1 Sheldon Reverse 1796 BB and 1797 Reverse T:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]620122[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]620123[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is Die State I of 1796 NC-7. </p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse does not have the obverse crack the other NC-7 has though the reverse is insufficiently strong enough to see if the die clashes of later die states are there. I can&#039;t even see die clashes that on that coin either.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]620126[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]620127[/ATTACH] This is a Die State II of 1796 NC-7.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was listed as NC-6 by Sheldon in EAC in 1948, but de-listed in Penny Whimsey in 1958. When a second example of the die showed up overstruck on a cut down planchet used for a half cent, the die was confirmed. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Die State I showed up when purchased unattributed by Rod Burress and was sold to Dan Holmes. It is the only one of the three available as a Cent with the discovery coin in ANS and the other now being a Half Cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next appearance of this Stemless Reverse die appears on a single pairing in 1807 with Obverse 9 and is the 1797 NC-8.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]620137[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is the 1797 NC-8. It is unique.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last obverse pairing for this die is the S-143 which was R5+ in 2000, but seems more likely to be R5 or R5- now.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]620145[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]620147[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the 1797 NC-143.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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