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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 741343, member: 66&quot;]The Large cent looks OK to me the weakness at the top of the 5 is not unusual.&nbsp; The pictures are not good enough to determine die variety.&nbsp; The reason the large cent is in such good condition compared to the other coins is because just two years after it was made the large cents were discontinued.&nbsp; While the large cents COULD continue to circulate, being an obsolete and discontinued coin they were much more likely to be kept rather than spent.&nbsp; Then by 1862 all coinage disappeared during the Civil War and much of them didn&#039;t return to circulation until the mid 1870&#039;s by which time a large cent in circulation would have been rather unusual.&nbsp; So basically it probably only circulated for a few years before it disappeared into a hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Doug is right about the counterfeiters, they probably make as much money faking the common coins than they do on the key dates.&nbsp; People really look at the keys and the fakes are spotted quickly because the diagnostics of the genuine pieces are well known.&nbsp; The commons are not looked at close and in many cases all the varieties are not well known or even cared about so the fakes are much easier to pass.&nbsp; I have seen fake common Morgans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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