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<p>[QUOTE="Gilbert, post: 2122721, member: 73104"]<span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961)]</font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Interesting and thought provoking for sure. My thinking is that there probably was not a time when large cents circulated alongside 1857 Flying Eagles. Thinking back to the mid-sixties, silver coinage disappeared from circulation rapidly, even though the clad replacements 'looked' the same. Image how much faster this process would have been if the new coins were different sizes, as was the case with the new cents and large cents? So my money goes with hoarding, otherwise why are large cents and half cents so plentiful today? I bet somewhere in a basement vault of Treasury is a report giving the details on how many or what weight of large and half cents were turned in. Any Treasury historians here?[/COLOR]</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gilbert, post: 2122721, member: 73104"][SIZE=17px][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961)] Interesting and thought provoking for sure. My thinking is that there probably was not a time when large cents circulated alongside 1857 Flying Eagles. Thinking back to the mid-sixties, silver coinage disappeared from circulation rapidly, even though the clad replacements 'looked' the same. Image how much faster this process would have been if the new coins were different sizes, as was the case with the new cents and large cents? So my money goes with hoarding, otherwise why are large cents and half cents so plentiful today? I bet somewhere in a basement vault of Treasury is a report giving the details on how many or what weight of large and half cents were turned in. Any Treasury historians here?[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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