Post an IHC factoid (new game)

This idea originated because I couldn't find the technical term for the ribbon flowing down from Liberty's headdress. (Note to self: it's probably "ribbon")



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I'll get the ball rolling:

1) Produced by the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1859 to 1909

 

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2) It is not an actual "Indian" ("Native American" for the PC among us), but rather Lady Liberty in an Indian head dress

 

The proofs are ugly and no one should collect them but me.

 

Only 2 years were not minted in Philadelphia.

1908 & 1909, both in San Francisco

 

Funny

 

Is this strictly limited to IHC's or can FE's be included?

 

CN Indians were only produced from 1859 to 1864.

 

There were 3 major varieties for the 1864 production year.

name them:

 

Copper Nickel, Bronze, L on Headband

 

In 1886 a minor change in design happened, what was it?

 

lowest feather between the I and the C

Then : lowest feather between the C and the A

 

Why is the 1859 a type coin in itself?

 

1859, laurel wreath reverse no shield.

 

1909 S – Only about 309,000 of this coin were minted because the Lincoln penny took over, so it is worth $400.00-$600.00, depending on the grade.

 

What is the easiest Indian head cent variety to cherry pick?


Hint:

I have cherried 13 of them.

And haven't look in a while.

Grades from AG-03 to VF-30.

 

There is an 1877 that was struck on a Venezuelan 1 centavo planchet. The planchet weighs 2.3 grams & is a copper ,nickel & zinc composition. One centavo blanks are 19 mm in diameter so it easily fit into the cent press designed for the 19.05 mm IHC planchets. The 1 centavo was struck by the US mint for Venezuela in 1876 & 1877. The only example (J-1495) ,was first displayed in 1902.

 

The model was Longacre's daughter.

 

Just legend, not fact

"However, Sarah Longacre was 30 years old and married in 1858, not 12 as in the tale, and Longacre himself stated that the face was based on a statue of Venus in Philadelphia on loan from the Vatican. He did often sketch his elder daughter, and there are resemblances between the depictions of Sarah and the various representations of Liberty on his coins of the 1850s. These tales were apparently extant at the time, as Snowden, writing to Treasury Secretary Howell Cobb in November 1858, denied that the coin was based "on any human features in the Longacre family".[10][11] Lee F. McKenzie, in his 1991 article on Longacre, notes that any artist can be influenced by many things, but calls the story "essentially false".[12]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent

 

Can't be.

 

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