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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26029668, member: 101855&quot;]This year cents were the main items on my shopping list. I am trying to build a date set of cents from 1793 to 2025. </p><p><br /></p><p>The year 1856 is covered in this set by a large cent I have had for a number of years. It&#039;s the best Braded Hair piece I have, and it is the coin for my type set. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1655130[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I had been thinking about an 1856 Flying Eagle Cent as a Proof for some time. Unlike some type collectors I prefer Proof coins when I can get them. Currently the Proof 1856 Flying Eagle cents are selling for a good deal less than than the Uncirculated pieces. All of them have been expensive for years, of course. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t do justice with this piece with my photographs. I&#039;m still working on it, but this is the best I&#039;ve done so far. It is NGC graded PR-64. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1655131[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This historic coin marked the start of the small cent era. Many of them were struck and given to members of Congress to get them to support the bill for the small cents. Many more were made over the next couple of years to satisfy collector demand. The passing of the large cent brought a much larger number of Americans into the coin collecting hobby. People immediately starting collecting the large cents by date, and market was born. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Red Book has long listed the mintage for the 1856 Flying Eagle cent at 1,000 pieces. It&#039;s a good deal higher than that. The current estimate is 2,200 to 2,300. It doesn&#039;t matter. The strong demand for this coin has kept the prices high for many years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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