Everyone, post your favorite large cent.

Here's my 2 fav for now the best one I got should be in my mail the beginning of the week

 

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What a beauty the 1794 head of 94 is my favorite large cent hands down and one of my all time favorite coins what a beautiful coin!!

 

Not U.S., but it is a large cent

 

Nice toning eh?

 

Bought my first one today. I have one in the mail.

Question for all you large cent collectors? I found a few coins where the date is sort of visible, but has a necklace hole. Do you still buy it? Although I think it ruins the value, is still a great way to showcase a nice 200+ year old coin?

 

Seen a lot of holed large cents I guess it depends on the collector and your personal opinion for me a hole is a no go unless it was a chain or a '93 liberty cap even then it would depend on the coin others are less picky but my love for coins are the aesthetics first ill take a more common date with great design strike and color over a rarer date that's less visually appealing best scenario is to have both tho

 

Yeah I find a lot online but for $30 I am not sure if its worth buying it having a good example.

 

Holed cents from that era are not that uncommon - they often served as washers, pie crimping tools, impromptu jewellry etc.

 

Yeah I figured that much. Even have seen semi worn examples I like, since Fine ones run into the hundreds/thousands.

 

This one was 100 years old when I was born:

 

S-185 and S-5 I believe. Is there anything left at all on the reverse on the S-5? It should have the small ribbon loop.

 

You can see from my earlier posts that I have no problem with holed coins when they are rare. I couldn't afford them otherwise. One of Twenty known with a hole or two or a prettier one with hundreds known? This is preference. My taste leans heavily toward rarity. Others lean heavily toward aesthetics. Value tends to lean heavily toward the latter.

I collect both, but require the holed coin be appropriately discounted for the damage.

 

Thank you, Bill. This is a very common Sheldon variety (S-24, R-1), but it is appealing as a type due to the bulging cheeks. In fact, it was called the 'Apple Cheeks' variety by Dr. Sheldon.

 

I am new to large cents. Its amazing to know how old these coins are, where they have been. I see a lot of worn coins going for a decent price. I may have to pick up a few to start collecting them

 

Depends on what era you are talking about - you can get some nice middle or late date large cents for less than $100. If you like large cents then get some books and study them for a bit. Other than the key dates and varieties you can put together a nice little set.

 

Lot of nice copper here! I tried to decide which of my large cents was my favorite and couldn't.

 

If you're like me, my favorite tended to be the last one acquired.

 

It is a s-185 I can't tell on the wreath ill post a pic of the reverse but its pretty worn

 

My First 1798. An S-164 M-LDS, not the rarest but special in that regard. also a decent S-51 - a variety not often seen too nice or in better grades.

1798 s-164


1794 s-51