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<p>[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2122512, member: 73555"]For Gilbert and Hommer, I was thinking more denominations than designs, so I left out the really BIG disappearance, the half cents and large cents. I wonder if there was ever a time when large cents circulated along side 1857 Flying Eagles? If no, there would have been a monumental shortage of 1-cent coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>There were about 42 million Flying Eagles minted in a 2-year period, and than an unprecedented surge in copper-nickel Indianheads, almost 160 million from 1859 to 1864. The question then evolves, did large cents circulate during the Civil War, during this massive production run? Maybe Q. David Bowers discusses this in his book, I have not read a copy yet. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Redbook indicates that the Law of February 21, 1857 provided for the coinage of the new small cents, AND that Spanish and Mexican coins, and large cents and half cents, be "brought in" and exchanged for U.S. silver coins and the new small cents. How long did this take? The Redbook also states that by 1857, large cents and half cents were generally disliked, and circulated only in the large cities of the eastern United States, such as Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2122512, member: 73555"]For Gilbert and Hommer, I was thinking more denominations than designs, so I left out the really BIG disappearance, the half cents and large cents. I wonder if there was ever a time when large cents circulated along side 1857 Flying Eagles? If no, there would have been a monumental shortage of 1-cent coins. There were about 42 million Flying Eagles minted in a 2-year period, and than an unprecedented surge in copper-nickel Indianheads, almost 160 million from 1859 to 1864. The question then evolves, did large cents circulate during the Civil War, during this massive production run? Maybe Q. David Bowers discusses this in his book, I have not read a copy yet. The Redbook indicates that the Law of February 21, 1857 provided for the coinage of the new small cents, AND that Spanish and Mexican coins, and large cents and half cents, be "brought in" and exchanged for U.S. silver coins and the new small cents. How long did this take? The Redbook also states that by 1857, large cents and half cents were generally disliked, and circulated only in the large cities of the eastern United States, such as Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.[/QUOTE]
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