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$39.95
The Flying Eagle Cent was designed by James B. Longacre. The coin has a weight of 4.67 grams, a diameter of 19mm, an a plain rim. The Flying Eagle Cent are 88% copper and 12% nickel which gives them a light color. Common nicknames for the Flying Eagle Cent were ‘white cent’, because of its color, and ‘nickel cent’ or ‘nick’, stemming from their composition (remember, the first five cent piece to be called a nickel was ten years later in 1866!). All specimens were struck in Philadelphia.
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$59.95
The Flying Eagle Cent was designed by James B. Longacre. The coin has a weight of 4.67 grams, a diameter of 19mm, an a plain rim. The Flying Eagle Cent are 88% copper and 12% nickel which gives them a light color. Common nicknames for the Flying Eagle Cent were ‘white cent’, because of its color, and ‘nickel cent’ or ‘nick’, stemming from their composition (remember, the first five cent piece to be called a nickel was ten years later in 1866!). All specimens were struck in Philadelphia.
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$0.00 – $925.00
The Indian Cent was designed by James B. Longacre. The coin has a weight of 4.67 grams, a diameter of 19mm, an a plain rim. From 1859 to the middle of 1964 the Indian Cent were 88% copper and 12% nickel which gave them a light color, same as the Flying Eagle Cent. From midway through 1864 to 1909 the composition was changed that of Bronze: 95% Copper and a 5% alloy of Zinc and Tin. Like the Flying Eagle, the early Indian Cent was sometimes called a ‘white cent’, because of its color, and ‘nickel cent’ or ‘nick’, stemming from their composition (remember, the first five cent piece to be called a nickel was seven years later in 1866!). All specimens were struck in Philadelphia except for the last two years, 1908 and 1909, which were minted in both Philadelphia and San Francisco.
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$0.50 – $750.00
The Lincoln Cent was designed by Victor D. Brenner. The first year of issue, 1909, the designers initials, VDB, were located on the reverse near the rim at the bottom. The public objected to the VDB siting the illegality of defacing coins for personal gain or reputation. The initials were removed the same year creating multiple varieties of 1909 Lincoln Cents. Realizing, years later, the ridiculous nature of the change, the VDB was restored to the coin in 1918 at the base of Lincoln’s shoulder on the obverse…were it remains to this day.
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$0.50 – $1.00
The Lincoln Cent was designed by Victor D. Brenner. The first year of issue, 1909, the designers initials, VDB, were located on the reverse near the rim at the bottom. The public objected to the VDB siting the illegality of defacing coins for personal gain or reputation. The initials were removed the same year creating multiple varieties of 1909 Lincoln Cents. Realizing, years later, the ridiculous nature of the change, the VDB was restored to the coin in 1918 at the base of Lincoln’s shoulder on the obverse…were it remains to this day.
