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1794 Liberty Cap Large Cent

Ken1796Ken1796 Posts: 145 ✭✭
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Hello -- What variety is this coin? I can't identify the variety by using the W. C. Noyes book.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

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  • coin22lovercoin22lover Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭

    S-54, not rare

  • Ken1796Ken1796 Posts: 145 ✭✭

    Thank you for the response. Any significance that the coin has a lettered edge?

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Ken1796 said:
    Thank you for the response. Any significance that the coin has a lettered edge?

    Those early dated LC cents all had, or should have, lettered edges. ONE HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,249 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bsshog40 said:
    Rare or not, I love anything from the 1700's. :)

    +1

  • PurfrockPurfrock Posts: 545 ✭✭✭

    Looks to be a S-54.

    EAC, ANA Member
  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love these eac guys, man it take's me 20 min or more to try and decipher the variety of a coin that is in the shape, these guys just take a few seconds and bam they know.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would be happy to just have that cent....well, maybe after a while I would want to know more... but wow... a coin from 1794...that alone would make me happy. Cheers, RickO

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,428 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SaorAlba said:

    @Ken1796 said:
    Thank you for the response. Any significance that the coin has a lettered edge?

    Those early dated LC cents all had, or should have, lettered edges. ONE HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR.

    To clarify, some of the 1793 Wreath cents, all of the 1794 cents, and the thick planchet 1795 Lettered Edge cents have edge lettering.
    The planchets were made thinner and the edge lettering discontinued, midway through 1795.

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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerguy21D said:

    @SaorAlba said:

    @Ken1796 said:
    Thank you for the response. Any significance that the coin has a lettered edge?

    Those early dated LC cents all had, or should have, lettered edges. ONE HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR.

    To clarify, some of the 1793 Wreath cents, all of the 1794 cents, and the thick planchet 1795 Lettered Edge cents have edge lettering.
    The planchets were made thinner and the edge lettering discontinued, midway through 1795.

    Yeah, I owned one of the 1795 examples with the lettered edge in AU-55 until kids started graduating college and it freed up fundage.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,428 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, that was a big coin, SaorAlba!
    These are under rated, and I’m fortunate to have a couple in VG and Fine.

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