I'm going to try to post one coin each day about something fun. Feel free to add to the thread with something related. This is a clashed die coin. Back in 1857 there was some crazy stuff going on at the US mint. This was the cent die clashed with the 50 cent die.
I haven’t posted yet..... But I have been back here like six times today to look at that cent..... Man, that’s sweet.
This is the only thing I can offer in relation to 1857. The Charlotte mint only had a few more years of life in her by then as events in the coming years would envelope the nation into some of its darkest times and close the mint as a production facility for good.