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<p>[QUOTE="RittenhouseCU, post: 3306002, member: 100546"]Nice surfaces are difficult in any pre-1840's coppers. It's brutal in the Classic Head cents of 1808 - 1814. A majority of those were melted in the run up to the War of 1812. There are reports of copper dealers, smelters, and mfg's picking up kegs at the mint and promptly melting them down for mfg into war goods.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same thing happened during the Napoleonic Wars and the Civil War. But, what really knocked the hell out of the early coppers was the exchange for small cents in 1857 and then the redemption laws after that. Thru 1880, nearly 38 MILLION large and half cents (mostly LC's) were melted down and used for alloy in new copper, silver, and gold coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RittenhouseCU, post: 3306002, member: 100546"]Nice surfaces are difficult in any pre-1840's coppers. It's brutal in the Classic Head cents of 1808 - 1814. A majority of those were melted in the run up to the War of 1812. There are reports of copper dealers, smelters, and mfg's picking up kegs at the mint and promptly melting them down for mfg into war goods. Same thing happened during the Napoleonic Wars and the Civil War. But, what really knocked the hell out of the early coppers was the exchange for small cents in 1857 and then the redemption laws after that. Thru 1880, nearly 38 MILLION large and half cents (mostly LC's) were melted down and used for alloy in new copper, silver, and gold coinage.[/QUOTE]
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