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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pigeonman333rd, post: 25591629, member: 101714&quot;]For your information I want to collect all 13 specimens of the brazil brass variety including the one counter stamped copy. Anything made in 1908 is still an antique in my mind and now that those specimens are considered protected due to their age, I would like to hold them in my hands. I want to pair the best specimens of the brazil brass to the best two bronze wide am reverse or small date 1856 specimens I have selected from the original 27 to have some variety other then cooper nickel in my collection. I currently have kept 3 one brass close Am reverse 1856 dated large date variety and two wide am reverse variety or small date 1856 specimens. I kept the two out of 27 bronze specimens because they were unaltered and not cleaned and the brass one because it is the only one I have of the large date 1856 variety. I have only seen and held in my hand one au55 genuine 1856 flying eagle cent which was very white metal and clearly cooper nickel. The others that I have seen look like off metal varieties or copper alloys of a different variety. My favorite of the varieties that I have seen is the 1856 flying eagle half cent made of silver colored metal it is slightly cleaned as if it turned black and it still has a black outline around the eagle and a few rub marks but other then that the eagle is beautiful. I don&#039;t know if the specimen in genuine it being a half cent but who really cares as long as you can hold it in your hands and look at it under a light and a loop. How exciting![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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