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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25538700, member: 101855&quot;]For years experts said that the copper in them was softer than the previous issues. That is nonsense. The answer is the mintages. There were 16 million Draped Bust large cents. There were just under 4.8 million Classic Heads. </p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were issued when there were almost no coin collectors in the U.S. Therefore the coins that survived in good shape were either in foreign collections or by luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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