Breen was correct in that there are only two "types" (or what I prefer to call "varieties") and as he notes, the variations primarily affect the small eagle to the right of the Liberty Bell.
Breen-Gillio - Walter Breen and Ron Gillio, authors of the book California Pioneer Fraction Gold. They developed a rarity numbering system for California fraction gold coins.
Breen letter A document, usually one page, written or typed by Walter Breen giving his opinion on a particular numismatic item.
Breen Book
Slang for Walter Breen’s magnum opus, Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins, published in 1988.
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Breen, Walter (1930-1993)
Noted numismatic historian, authenticator and author.
Breen-Gillio
Numbering system base on the book on California fraction gold coins by Walter Breen and Ron Gillio titled California Pioneer Fraction Gold.
Breen letter
A written or typed document by Walter Breen rendering his opinion on a particular numismatic item. Prior to 3rd party certification, this was a common method collectors and dealers used to authenticate a unique item.
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Breen's "Canceled Die" Discovery Coin
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Breen Book
Slang for Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins. It was published in 1988.
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Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of US Half Cents 1793-1857 by Walter Breen
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Breen suggests the Kentucky tokens were popular and circulated throughout the American states, but gives no evidence for this statement.
Breen took similar liberties in his 1992 revision of A. W. Browning's 1925 book The Early Quarter Dollars of the United States, 1796-1838.
Breen estimates that less than 1% of the Type 2 dollar mintage still exists in all grades. The coins wore down so quickly when exposed to circulation that within a few years, much of the total output had been rendered almost illegible.
Breen pronounced the high-relief double eagle to have been "the finest American coin design ever to reach circulation." Collectors certainly agree, for today the high-relief is one of the most sought-after coins in numismatics.
Breen - Listed in Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U. S. and Colonial Coins.
FS - Fivaz/Stanton, listed in The Cherrypickers' Guide.
S - Snow, listed in Flying Eagle and Indian cents, by Rick Snow.
Breen - Listed with a Breen reference number in Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U. S. and Colonial Coins.
The Breen Encyclopedia changed the landscape of American numismatics. Before this book was published, the most authoritative research appeared in auction catalogs.
The Breen numbers from his Encyclopedia are widely used to attribute varieties of coins.
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1835, Breen 3930, Browning 7, SCARCE, no period after 25c, Fine Obv. Dentiles, Corse Rev. Dentiles, VF nice gun metal tone, PRICE ON REQUEST
1836, VF, Breen 3931, Rotated Reverse Sub-Variety, POR ...
"Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of United States Cents 1793-1814" by Walter Breen and Mark Borckardt
"United States Large Cents, Volumes I & II" by William C. Noyes
"United States Copper Cents 1816-1857" by Howard R. Newcomb ...
Scholar Walter Breen reported that two obverse dies and six reverse dies have been identified, one of the reverses being known only from trial strikings in pewter.
Published in 1988, Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins is an exhaustive work that picks up where the trusty Yeoman's Redbook leaves off.
Content includes Interviews with historic numismatic figures such as Walter Breen, Aubrey Bebee, Q David Bowers and Eric Newman, along with the best educational presentation ever produced.
In the late Walter Breen's book, the Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and
Colonial Coins, he suggests 5 reasons for the failure of the dollar coin in
the U.S. economy. They all make perfect sense, and I will paraphrase these ...
BG Gold Term sometimes applied to California fractional gold coins as encompassed in the Breen-Gillio reference work titled California Pioneer Fraction Gold, including additional discoveries.
Walter Breen in his Encyclopedia gives an excellent interpretation of the fasces. The fasces consist of an executioner's axe bound with a group of rods.
I suggested that he would add to his knowledge of this Civil War-era gold Proof rarity if he did some reading on the subject, and I recommended David Akers' books on gold coins as well as a copy of Walter Breen's Encyclopedia.
CALIFORNIA GOLD TOKENS, 1852-1915 Walter Breen with the collaboration of Ronald J. Gillio, California Pioneer Fractional Gold, 1983. R. H. Burnie, Small California and Territorial Gold Coins: Quarter Dollars, Half Dollars, Dollars, 1955.
Walter Breen is a well-known example of a noted numismatist who was not an avid collector, while King Farouk I of Egypt was an avid collector who had very little interest in numismatics.
and Colonial Coins, by Walter Breen
Smithosonian's National Museum of American History
Smithsonian's Legendary Coins & Currency
Amazon.com Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection, by John Dannreuther
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In the 1970s, Walter Breen attributed both matte and satin proofs for 1921 and 1922. However, US Mint records for 1922 make no mention of the satin proofs, so their attribution rests solely on Breen's analysis.
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1804 Dollar, the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel, and the 1894`S ...
As numismatic author Walter Breen stated "Weinman’s symbolic message…was clearly an updated ‘Don’t tread on me.
Stella Pattern 1879 and 1880 $4 gold pieces featuring a large star as their reverse motif. America's most famous researcher and pederast, Walter Breen, reports in his monumental Complete Encyclopedia of U. S. and Colonial Coins, p.
The large cent book, first published in 1949 as Early American Cents with only Dr. Sheldon listed, updated in 1958 with Walter Breen and Dorothy Paschal also listed as authors with the new name, Penny Whimsy.
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It's understandable that there might be conflict, as Barber's three designs (dime, quarter, and half dollar) were being replaced. Also, as Breen tells us, ...
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Usually they would use two totally different coins or tokens such as the front of a cent and the back of a quarter. Sometimes they would make two headed coins. Reference books like "Breen" will sometimes list what coins have "known mules" out there.
Do you own any in-depth coin books as in Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia? Why not?
A few examples of reference works on die varieties are: Sheldon (large cents), Valentine (half dimes), Browning (early quarters), Overton (bust half dollars), Van- Allen/Mallis (Morgan silver dollars), and Breen (Us. gold coins $1 through $10).
America's most famous researcher and pederast, Walter Breen, reports in his monumental Complete Encyclopedia of U. S. and Colonial Coins, p.
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