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The coins I collect shall be passed on to my surviving Son & Grandson. Been collecting since I was a Boy Scout, collection has grown thru the years, all I can say is when they get this collection, THEY WILL BE THANKFUL & IMPRESSED ! I can hear their words now, Thanks Dad & Thanks Grandpa.
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I am not even positive this is the same coin as the picture, the wear on the one I received was much worse, the letters are barely legible. I can understand why no returns are accepted, it is because this is a scam to sell worn out coins. I am holding the coin I received in 2 pictures. Coins backed by yellow paper are the ones from the listing.
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By the mid-1850s it was apparent that the large copper cents struck since 1793 were too cumbersome and unpopular, as well as increasingly uneconomical to make. The idea of fiduciary coinage, based on the trustworthiness of the issuing authority, not on the coin's intrinsic value, was beginning to catch on as well. Sooner or later the "big coppers" would have gone the way of the dinosaur. Designed by James B. Longacre, the Flying Eagle motif was actually an adaptation of the Christian Gobrecht/Titian Peale design used on pattern dollars twenty years before. The reverse wreath was similarly adapted from the model Longacre had made for the 1854 one and three dollar gold pieces. As with other Longacre designs, the relief was too high. This caused problems on fully struck coins, they would not stack properly, and on less than perfectly produced pieces it created problems associated with die opposition, that is, either the eagle's head and tail did not strike up fully on the obverse or the wreath was ill-defined on the reverse. It was Longacre's inability to engrave dies properly that led to the early demise of the series. A new design was needed where die opposition would not be a problem as it had been between the eagle on the obverse and the wreath on the reverse. It was this need that led Longacre to redesign the small cent for 1859, replacing the flying eagle motif with an Indian head. The original small cent design, however, gave collectors of 19th century U.S. coins a short, yet challenging series that continues to intrigue numismatists more than a century laterRead full review
I received exactly what I ordered! I love my coin
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Coin is a beauty! Great price! AAA+
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