1846 Braided Hair Cent
Tall Date
This variety is the only 1846 Proof with the Tall Date. It was unknown to Howard Newcomb and it is extremely rare. Walter Breen listed two examples, with a third as a possible duplicate of one of the others. There are four examples in the Noyes and Loring lists. These are the only four known to us.
The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the July 2015 Baltimore Auction, where it realized $21,150.