Half Cents – Liberty Cap Half Cent, Head Facing Right, Small Head, 1795-1797
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Though 1794 half cents are sometimes included in the Liberty Cap, Head Facing Right type, there are differences that distinguish that date from half...
Half Cents – Draped Bust Half Cent, 1800-1808
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Half cents were authorized by the Mint Act of April 2, 1792, were first produced in 1793, but were not popular with the public....
Half Cents – Classic Head Half Cent, 1809-1836
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Robert Patterson, a respected scholar with ties to President Thomas Jefferson, was appointed Director of the U.S. Mint in 1805. As Director, he was...
Half Cents – Braided Hair Half Cent, 1840-1857
By 1809 the half cent was not a denomination as frequently used in commerce as was the cent and various foreign coins that circulated...
Large Cents – 1793 Chain Cent – Ameri. Reverse
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Considered the first Chain cent produced, and struck between February 27th and March 12th, 1793, the first coinage of the fledgling United States Mint...
Large Cents – 1793 Chain Cent – America Reverse
Description:Chain Cents were struck only briefly in 1793, replaced by the more available Wreath Cent type, presumably due to contemporary criticism of the chain...
Large Cents – 1793 Wreath Cent
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The Chain cents produced early in 1793 received immediate criticism. The obverse Liberty was considered an unflattering portrait of the symbol of freedom, particularly...
Large Cents – Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796
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The Liberty Cap design by Joseph Wright was derived from what today is likely one of the most popular early medals, the Libertas Americana...
Large Cents – Draped Bust Cent, 1796-1807
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Copper cents in the early years of the country had a checkered history. The large cents were not the most easily handled, but they...
Large Cents – Classic Head Cent 1808-1814
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Robert Patterson, an Irish immigrant, was a schoolmaster, shopkeeper, and mathematician, the teacher of the man who later surveyed the original boundaries of the...
Large Cents – Matron Head Large Cent, 1816-1835
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The Classic Head cents had been coined through 1814, but because of a copper shortage no cents were made in 1815; the only year...
Large Cents – Modified Matron Head Cent, 1836-1839
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Continuous modifications were made to the Matron Head cent starting in the mid-1830s, and the transitional nature of the changes has resulted in differences...
Large Cents – Braided Hair Cent, 1839-1857
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Liberty Head Large cents were produced from 1816 through 1857. Modifications were made to the Matron Head style starting in the mid-1830s, and the...
Small Cents – One Cent Flying Eagle, 1856-1858
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By the early 1850s copper availability was limited, and the price of the raw metal rose to the point that the Mint lost money...
Small Cents – Indian Head Cent 1859 COPPER-NICKEL Laurel Wreath Reverse
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The Indian Head one-cent coin was produced by the United States Mint from 1859 through 1909. It was designed by James Barton Longacre, the...
Small Cents – Indian Head Cent, Copper-Nickel, 1860-1864
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James B. Longacre's Indian Head design for the cent debuted in 1859. The previous Flying Eagle design had been minted for only three years...
Small Cents – Indian Head Cent, Bronze, 1864-1909
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The small "white cents", so-called because of their light color compared to that of the older large cents, had at first escaped the hoarding...
Small Cents – 1909 V.D.B. Lincoln Cent
Description:The first year issue of perhaps one of the most popular and enduring designs in US Coinage. The new coin featured a portrait of...
Small Cents – Lincoln Cent, Bronze, Wheat Ears Reverse, 1909-1958
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The Lincoln cent has been a favorite of collectors for many years. Part of the appeal lies in the fact that it is the...
Small Cents – Lincoln Cent, Steel, Wheat Ears Reverse, 1943
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Lincoln cents were made of bronze most years, but World War II resulted in a couple of changes to the cent composition. Because copper...
Small Cents – Lincoln Cent, Bronze/ Brass, Memorial Reverse, 1959-1982
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The Lincoln motif on the cent was introduced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. The 150th anniversary of that event occasioned another...
Two Cent Pieces – 1864-1873
The two-cent coin was produced in the United States from 1864-1873 with decreasing mintages throughout that time. The two-cent piece was made of 95%...