I'm in the process of re-imaging my collection. Here's a coin from my type set. Not the best one you'll ever see -- but it's mine 1793 Chain AMERICA, NGC VG-10 BN I don't know if there are die varieties for this coin, but if so would someone please let me know what it is (if you can tell).
Yes there are varieties (all dies were hand cut), I'm not an EAC person, but somebody will. Hey - figure you or I are going to look even half that good at 224?
Very cool. I may likely never own one of these, but I still love looking at these amazing pieces of history.
Stacks also said this coin is an S-3, R.3- when it sold at auction. Beautiful coin and a great piece of American history.
Very nice example of the S-3 variety, (characterized by a leaning 'R' in LIBERTY). Much better than my corroded VG8!
love it, thanks for sharing. on the long list of coins I'd love, ANY coin in any shape from US 1700s is high up.
The chain cents were the first coins struck at the Philadelphia mint on their own equipment. They were struck from March 1st to March 13th 1793. There was 36,103 minted. They then ran out of blanks. They used 4 obverse and 2 reverses dies. The op's S-3 had an estimated mintage of ~ 9000. The wreath cents were the next one cent minted.
The wreath cents were struck between April 8th and July 17th, 1793. Total mintage of 63,353. The op's S-11C was most likely struck July 6 th - July 17th with 12,001 minted. The S-11C was struck with "100 FOR A DOLLAR" on the edge device. The 1793 wreaths have the highest surviving population of any pre 1800 cents. This was due to British collectors and the local citizens who saw them as the US first cent they had come across.
