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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3469750, member: 66&quot;]Did a little checking (very little) and in 1880 344,000 large cents were returned to the mint for remelting so apparently there were still some circulating in 1880.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1879 report shows 552,000 copper cents were melted down that year. (Note the report breaks down the recoinage by copper cents, nickel cents and bronze cents, so the copper cents would be large cents.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I jumped ahead to 1890.&nbsp; There are no numerical figures in that report, but it does say that $79.49 worth of tin and zinc were added to the copper cents melted to bring them to the proper alloy.&nbsp; So apparently some large cents were still arriving in 1890.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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