My favorite U.S. coin design. New purchase!

I think they made it even more beautiful........

 

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The edge lettering reads "one hundred cents." That and the big size give it away.

 

Oh, I didn't think about edge lettering. Thanks.

 

Yep, these are bigger than a Morgan dollar... with so much foreign currency being used daily in commerce at that time I’m guessing the average citizen had to be quite conscious of the size of silver coins in relation to their value too.

 

Weight too. In the 18th c and before merchants would weigh silver and gold coins due to all the clipped underweight and counterfeit coins out there. US dollars were similar in weight to Spanish milked dollars which circulated heavily here too many from privateer captured Spanish ships

 

It's especially nice that it has a sweet reverse. They are often all washed out or had poor strikes to begin with.

 

Congrats on the 35 - Here's mine: gotta love the reverse!

 

Nice pick C-B-D! ... and you got the better reverse, the Heraldic Eagle. The DBHE is my favorite design. I personally FAR prefer it to the scrawny chicken.

 

And it CAC'd today. Sweet!

 

Size, mainly. It was roughly equivalent to the spanish “dollars” in circulation, and the edge had the words “100 CENTS OR A DOLLAR”

 

YAY!

 

For looks, I agree. For early US symbology, I prefer the Eagle hatchling.

 

Huzzah! (Again.) That’s just awesome.