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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 8384678, member: 101855&quot;]You read that the Two Cent Piece was not popular, but if that&#039;s true, why are so many of the late date survivors so badly worn? Many years ago, I accepted a challenge from a dealer to put together the set in EF. That means with a strong &quot;WE,&quot; no exceptions. I could find them all except for the 1872 and of course the 1873, which didn&#039;t circulate. But it wasn&#039;t easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some might say that the coins were carried as pocket pieces, and that&#039;s how they got worn. Still I think that there was a demand for the coin. The point was a lot of cents that had been hoarded during the Civil War came back into circulation. That lowered the annual mintage figures for cents, and the government probably figured that the Two Cent Piece was no longer needed.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, congrats on making 54,000 posts. I have over 31,000 posts on another site, but I&#039;ve been there for 20 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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