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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 728708, member: 66&quot;]The first US cent was the 1787 fugio</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are four minor obverse varieties of your Varety II.&nbsp; Variety 2 is made up of three different obverses, one with large letters in LIBERTY and a wide date and two with small letters in Liberty and closely spaced date.&nbsp; One of these latter two is the rarest of all the chain cents NC-1 of which ther are only two specimens known.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that the strawberry leaf cents probably came first and then the other leaves.&nbsp; This is because examination of the strawberry leaf cents shows that the edge dies are different from those of the later wreath cents and do match those of the first couple wreath cents AND they match the edge dies used on the chain cents.&nbsp; It seems to make mosre sense for it to be chain, strawberry leaf, laurel leaf, than chain, laurel leaf, strawberry leaf, laurel leaf again.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The lettered edges only appear on the very last variety of the 93 wreath.&nbsp; All of the 93 caps have the lettered edge with the single leaf.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t believe Wright ever did a pattern cent design.&nbsp; He did however create the 1793 half cent, and used that design, reversing the head, for the large cent design.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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