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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25324646, member: 101855&quot;]It&#039;s not a great coin, but here&#039;s the piece I bought for my on again, off again large cent date set. This date gets very expensive, very fast as you go up the grades. I decided that I was not going to pay a fortune to fill the hole. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1618494[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The 1823 large cent is a semi-key date in the series. Oddly enough, the overdate variety is more common than the normal date. The story was mint had a lot of leftover 1822 large cent dies. They used the previous year&#039;s dies, in 1823 and only changed to the new date at the end of the year. </p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, the dies still exist for the 1823 large cent. They are in the ANA Headquarters Museum in Colorado. Here is a photo they let me take while I was there.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1618495[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These dies were used to strike the 1823 &quot;Restrike variety&quot; which is pictured and listed in the 2024 Red Book on page 102. They are broken and rusted, but were still good enough to strike some pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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