Baker-32, W-11085 variety, the dated Penny with the bust of Washington facing right.  Considered to be Rarity-7 with just 9 specimens definitively traced, making this one of the great rarities in the Washington series.

At the time of this writing, PCGS has slabbed a grand total of two examples of this type – the extraordinary (and extraordinarily expensive) MS64 piece ex-Norweb we handled several years ago and now in a tightly held Boston Collection, and this lovely Ch. AU pedigreed to the famous Roper sale.

In addition to those two examples, our own census research shows an uncertified mint state coin found in Europe and now locked up in another significant east coast collection and a similar specimen permanently impounded in the Massachusetts Historical Society, but the rest of the potentially available pieces are in much lower grade.  With the F/VF 1982 Robison coin the best of the lot, followed by the rough, low grade Garrett specimen, a porous VG example sold by Stack’s in 2007, another in perhaps Good, and, finally, the Baker Plate Coin, ex-Steinberg, a piece with AU detail but 13 sizable and intentionally inflicted digs on the obverse.  And that’s it.

Making this nice, PCGS graded AU55 the best one likely to be obtainable any time in the foreseeable future.

Ex Stack’s December 1983 sale of the Roper Collection, lot #395.

SOLD

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