Want to see a pretty Flying Eagle?

Picked this little beauty at the coin show...they graded it an AU50...not sure if it is quite that good but it is so far the best I have. I got to see three 1856 Flying Eagles...talk about my heart stopping...I wanted one soooo badly :goofer:

I put her up against the lower grade one I have so you can see the difference. I love that eagle...oh and she has a slight double die on the bottom near the ribbon





Here are some other shots:











What do you think?

 

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looks good, the color looks good also. everything that i have been able to find as far as flying eagle cents have look like garbage.

 

Really nice coin , XF-40 , Too much wear on eagles breast and bow and leaves to go AU , still a nice coin , looks original to me . JMO
rzage

 

Very nice coin, thanks for posting the pictures.

 

Nice Flying Eagle. I'm not going to offer a grade opinion because I don't know enough about FEs to be able to grade them accurately. But, I like it. It's one of my favorite designs.

 

I don't know if I agree with that. One looks AU 50 to me at least. The other I agree is XF, but it is a really good one. If these are the natural color of these coins they are great specimens. Most XF's I see are very dark.

Ruben

 

Also have to remember that I am new with the camera so some of the details of the eagle aren't what they could be

 

he's right that the eagle's breast is the spot to look, but also a lot of FE's don't have full detail on that spot either. I just think, from looking at it, that its not enough wear to drop one from AU, but the other I think is XF 40

Ruben

 

Looks very nice in the pic but I would need you to send it to me for further study.

 

Sundance;
Nice piece.

I tried to see, but couldn't enlarge the picture.

Check the eagle's eye.
It could be doubled.

There are several popular doubled eye varieties for this year.

 

Question about 57 & 58 FE cents in general

With all the bazillions of FE cents that were made, I always feel like there are not very many surviving examples (compared to surviving Indians or Lincolns of similar mintages). I haven't learned of any melt or exchange that took FEs out of the public domain. What do you think happened to them all?

Very best regards,
collect89

 

for one thing they didn't strike very well..

Ruben

 

I've got'em all in my basement (I wish) LOL..........

 

But they must of spent them , they didn't throw them out , a penny back then was probably at least $1 today , did they wear out and get melted and recoined , about 42 million of them .
rzage:thumb:

 

I never read that they weren't popular? They were more popular that the big coppers. They just weren't easy to mint and had a lot of poor strikes. They also came onto the coinage scene with a bunch of other changes, most importantly the mad rush to trade in 2 bit silvers for new coinage. And they are old and lasted only two years.


Ruben