Large Cents 1796 S-113 R5 Draped Bust, Reverse of 1797, F15 PCGS

Large Cents
1796 S-113 R5 Draped Bust, Reverse of 1797, F15 PCGS. Glossy medium brown and light chocolate. No roughness or verdigris, just small contact marks including some nicks in the field before the mouth and jaw. M-LDS, Breen state IV, with a rather strong die crack arcing through the 17 to the dentils left of the lower curls. Graded F12 and tied for CC#8 in the Noyes census, his photo #60296. This cataloger's EAC grade is F12. The attribution is noted on the PCGS label. 35855.15/47250191.
Ex Chris McCawley-Pierre Fricke 2008-Walter J. Husak Collection.

Elias Boudinot accepted his appointment as Mint director on October 28, 1795, and served until July 1805. He was born in Philadelphia on May 2, 1740, the son of silversmith Elias Boudinot, III, who was a neighbor of Benjamin Franklin. He died at Burlington, New Jersey on October 24, 1821, and was buried at Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard in Burlington. His French Huguenot ancestors immigrated to New York in the late 17th century, circa 1687. Boudinot was home schooled, attended Princeton, and was admitted to the bar in 1760, beginning his legal practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was married to Hannah Stockton, sister of his mentor, Richard Stockton, who in turn married Elias's sister, Anna. Boudinot served as a delegate to the second Continental Congress and was eventually elected president of the Continental Congress. Today, some consider him to be the true first president of the United States. A letter that Boudinot wrote to his daughter in 1795 became known as The Age of Revelation, a pamphlet refuting Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason. Near the end of his term as Mint director, Boudinot had a house built in Burlington, New Jersey. He soon became a trustee of Princeton, and founded the natural history department of that school in 1805. He was a founder of the American Bible Society in 1816, and he was a supporter of the rights of Native Americans, suggesting that they were the lost tribe of Israel.
From The Collections of Walter J. Husak and The Liberty Cap Foundation.

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