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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BostonCoins, post: 1736787, member: 34720&quot;]I&#039;ve been studying Large Cents very closely since starting to collect them about 5 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one coin that really has very little information on it out there is the infamous 1795 Jefferson Head large cent. Now I know the following so far:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Produced by John Harper. Supposedly, he was trying to win a contract with the US mint to produce coinage (this is during the era where the Mint was reducing the weight of the Cent in order to be cost effective. At the time, it cost $1.22 to produce one hundred cents).</p><p><br /></p><p>- Coin went &#039;unnoticed&#039; until Walter Breen identified the type in 1952</p><p><br /></p><p>- Is found Plain Edged as well as Reeded Edge</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that is about the summary of what I know. I guess I would love to have people answer, or weigh in on the following questions I have on this coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance! I love to learn new things about the coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>1. John Harper slipped these coins into circulation? How many did he produce? Did he really just donate $100 or so to the general public type of thing?!</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Did this type really go unnoticed for 150+ years? Or, is there an earlier book that refers to this type?</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Who exactly IS the portrait of? Do we know?</p><p><br /></p><p>4. The coin design of the Jefferson is quite similar in many ways to the regular issue Cent... with some obvious differences between the two. Did he just &#039;copy&#039; and &#039;improve&#039; the original design, or was he involved with the early design of the regular issue cent?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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