who likes large cents??

Here are my large cents in my type set. None of which are high-grade or valuable, but all of their own appeal in my opinion. I'm still in need of a decent draped bust cent. Feel free to comment and grade....and post your own too!:goofer:

 

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the two reverses just posted are for the two coronets, in the same order as the obverses were posted.

 

Gotta love them classic head cents .
rzage

 

Very nice! I have none to post myself, so I'll just enjoy looking at yours. Thanks

 

http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/large_pennies.html

 

mrbrklyn...I REALLY like the surfaces on your liberty cap cent!! Very nice for a coin that old! :hail:

 

which one? the '51?

Ruben

 

No, the liberty cap cent from 1795. Most of the ones I see from the eighteenth century have a lot of porosity and are quite weathered looking. Yours is a very nice G-4/AG in my opinion in spite of what looks to be some post mint digs.

 

I don't know what to tell you. It doesn't have much left of a face

It's in an ANACS slab graded AG3 Details - PL Edge S-76b
Scratches RIM DAMAGE

Too me, I don't understand the body bag grade on a coin this old and this used.

It also amazes me that a coin would be used this much.

Ruben

 

When Large Cents circulated a cent actually bought something. Heck, there were also Half Cents then that were an important part of everyday transactions. And a Large Cent was worth TWICE as much as a Half Cent.

Large Cents circulated to the point many were worn nearly smooth because there were almost no coin collectors when they circulated. Coin collecting as we know it began when Large Cents were replaced by the Small Cent (Flying Eagle Cent). Collectors tried to find one example from each year. (1815 proved to be difficult.) By then that 1795 Large Cent had circulated more than 60 years. It's a wonder these pure copper coins have any detail left after so much use.

 

Ruben,

After 213 years, you should be amazed that it looks that good! I could not even dream of the number of pockets it has been in, how many other coins it has interacted with, how many times it has been fingered from being made someone's pocket piece and how many items that it might have purchased. Boy, if you could only trace it's provenance or it could talk! Just think, your' coin may have been in the hands of our First President as well as many of our other early Presidents, Vice Presidents and some of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.


Frank

 

Nice coins all. You can check out mikes -http://www.pbase.com/miker/large_cents. I keep his site bookmarked. Here are two of mine.

 

Yup, that is the amazing part of this coin. I think the '97s are cheaper.

Ruben

 

But they were discounted because they weren't legal tender and very unpopular, so it still surprises me, aside which I'd think someone would just it out of circulation at some point, maybe around 1840?

Ruben

 

Some later dates:

1847, N-21


1855 slanted 5's, N-10

 

Large Cents

I don't know what it is about early (draped bust, liberty cap) cents and half cents that always have an allure for me.

 

Here's my best one. She looks pitted i think but still nice. Much nice in hand.

 

next time post this to the US Coins thread, so more people will see it.