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Only 2 1815 large cents were produced, because of copper shortages for the War of 1812. ... 1824 (P) 1,262,000 (P) 4 Proof 1825 (P) 1,461,100 (P) 5 Proof 1826
The Coronet large cent was a type of large cent issued by the United States Mint at the Philadelphia Mint [1] from 1816 until 1857. [ 2 ] There are two similar designs of the Coronet large cent, the Matron Head and the Braided Hair , the latter with a slightly altered profile.
The United States large cent was a coin with a face value of 1/100 of a United States dollar. Its nominal diameter was 1 1 ⁄ 8 inch (28.57 mm). The first official mintage of the large cent was in 1793, and its production continued until 1857, when it was officially replaced by the modern-size one-cent coin (commonly called the penny ).
Large Cent 28 mm 10.89 g 1793–1857 Half Dollar (Clad) 30.61 mm 11.34 g 1971–present Half Dollar (40% Ag) 30.6 mm ... especially as the value of silver varied.
Sources don’t appear to concur on the coins value at auction. The Spruce Crafts pegs the value at $117,500 (as of 2016) for an MS66 example, while PCGS suggested the value topped out at $99,875 ...
Hard Times Tokens are American large cent or half-cent-sized copper or brass tokens, struck from about 1833 through 1843, serving as unofficial currency. These privately made pieces, comprising merchant, political and satirical pieces, were used during a time of political and financial crisis in the United States.
Sold for: $12,500 G.I. Joes took the ’60s by storm when they were released in 1964, and several vintage versions are worth lots of money today. One of the most prominent, though, is the Navy G.I ...
The penny, also known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).