Liberty Cap Cents

1794 Liberty Cap cent production was far more successful than the United States Mint's inaugural-year of cent production had been. The Mint settled on...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The third one-cent coin design issued in 1793, engraver Joseph Wright's Liberty Cap Cent was a major improvement over those produced...

Magnificent coins from an extraordinary collection of large cents featuring every one of the Sheldon number varieties from 1796 through 1814 will land in...

A magnificent double-struck 1794 S-28 Head of 1794, MS66 Brown NGC early large cent is crossing the block in the Heritage ANA U.S. Coins...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The United States Mint used six obverses and six reverses (as understood in 1901) to create 11 die marriages for the...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Three obverse dies and three reverse dies were used to strike 37,000 Lettered Edge cents...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The cent, America's longest serving coin, debuted in 1793. Struck on blanks of English import,...

By Greg Reynolds for CoinWeek .....   In early August, Heritage Auctions will sell a group of type coins consigned by Oliver Jung, including the finest...

By Greg Reynolds for CoinWeek .....   An excellent 1794 large cent is ‘in the news’! On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Heritage Auctions sold a Gem-quality cent...