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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 18290836, member: 101855"]The half cent is answer is easy. The coin was never popular, and as evidenced by the high grades seen for the last type, the Braided Hair, the piece was seldom used in circulation. It's rare to see one of these coins, because of "honest wear," not damage grade below EF.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1537260[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the new small cents were much smaller than the large cent. A half cent would have been even smaller. Why issue a small coin that no one wanted to use?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the other two coins, I dare say that inflation made them obsolete.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 18290836, member: 101855"]The half cent is answer is easy. The coin was never popular, and as evidenced by the high grades seen for the last type, the Braided Hair, the piece was seldom used in circulation. It's rare to see one of these coins, because of "honest wear," not damage grade below EF. [ATTACH=full]1537260[/ATTACH] Also the new small cents were much smaller than the large cent. A half cent would have been even smaller. Why issue a small coin that no one wanted to use? As for the other two coins, I dare say that inflation made them obsolete.[/QUOTE]
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