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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 464800, member: 4381&quot;]<a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/cents_flying_eagle.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/cents_flying_eagle.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/cents_flying_eagle.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are two popular major varieties of the 1858 Flying Eagle Cent often collected alongside the 1856 and 1857 coins to complete a set. In fact, there are other minor varieties, but these are for the specialist.&nbsp; The two major varieties, Large Letters and Small Letters, are reasonably easy to identify. The difference in the lettering in the AM of AMERICA is obvious.&nbsp; As in 1857, there are Proof and business strikes of the date to be collected. There is also an important 1858/7 overdate rarity only discovered in recent years. This overdate is believed to be a refurbished 1857 die with the 8 added later. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like the Large Cent, the Small Cent was not legal tender, so it should have come as no surprise that it, too, would be rejected by bankers and merchants.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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