I am working on a set of Indian Cents. I collected a set when I was in high school, so you might say that I am having a "second childhood" in my old age. I hope to some day get a date set of cents from 1793 to present. Most of the Indian Cents I have purchased are raw, but I have made a few exceptions when I get tired of looking. This piece was especially nice, so I bought it. It's a PCGS MS-64, Brown. Currently is one of the coins on the PCGS "Coin Facts" site, but it probably won't be there for long. This one has a lot of eye appeal. My photo The "Coin Facts" photo
Because it will be removed from the previous owner's registry set? Nice coin. I don't own any good ones, just a short set of dates my grandparents pulled from change. They're all almost black.
No, that is not the reason. As more and more coins get graded with either TrueViews or Gold Shield service, newer coins with images will push older coins out of the CoinFacts selections, if PCGS already have many coins at the same numeric grade. But honestly I've owned coins that have CoinFacts images, and they've stayed on the page for more than a decade, it really depends on how popular a series is, how common the date is, and how often new coins are getting imaged by PCGS. I would imagine Indian Head cents images would stick around for a long time, unless it's an extremely common date in a common grade Something say like common date Morgan dollars, coins probably get pushed off the page quicker unless it's an unusual grade. I mean if everyone 's getting 65s and here you come along with a pretty XF, you could probably stay there forever with a coin. And if you start talking about tokens and there's only ever been like one or three graded at all then you're just going to have your token with available images on coinfacts there forever.
Nice coin. IHC was the first coin series that I loved. I would buy them raw as like a 7-year-old at a coin shop that was in a little strip mall in Windham, Maine in the 80s. I actually still have one of those coins in my CAC type set. I got it slabbed about 12 years ago and got it CAC approved maybe 10 years ago. I am not that much into proofs but sometimes I toy with the idea of buying an Indian head cent in proof.
Nice cent. That's 232 years / 231 coins. Any 1815 patterns/counterfeits/fantasy pieces exist? I have 1857-2024 (except for 1877) plus 4 earlier years. So 171 of the 231 coins!!! Woohoo!
Congratulations on the 1888 Indian. I like your coin better than the coinfacts photo. But I think their photo is better done: perhaps a little sharper? Large cents are also quite neat. Good luck finding the pre-1816 ones to match your Indians grade-wise tho.
Oh, I have one pre-1816 Unc. large cent. It's not red, but I don't like red any way. It's too fragile. This is graded MS-62, but it's not quite Unc. This is graded MS-63, and it is Mint State These coins are the execeptions in the set I'm building, not the rule.
Here's another one of my Indians! This one is rare as it's made by Heinz Hoyer who is a European coin engraver who has designed Euro's and other coins I don't know about yet! Stamped on the reverse with HH and 986, gold 1/4!
