A very mysterious Large Cent...
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Early American Copper, Bust and Seated.
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Looks real.
Ground find?
Not by me, but I'm sure it was.
Early American Copper, Bust and Seated.
Yes. This one has seen better days.
“ED”...... and Viagra isn’t going to help this time.
So, there’s my comment, as requested. :-)
The writing on the side is noteworthy however, and leads me to believe that this may be something other than a large cent. And looking more carefully, I now see what could be the remnants of a flowing hair profile- as d9lowe later points out .
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I can barely see the OBV Liberty Head and cap along with the lower portions of LIBERTY. Interesting nonetheless.
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Almost looks like a Flowing Hair obverse
You have a 1793- 95 lettered edge.
From the 1790's but so far gone it may not be worth bothering with unless it can be shown to be ultra-rare Sheldon number.
interesting stuff
Agree with this, that's as far as I can go with what's shown. As for speculation, the '93 Lib Caps are darn rare, and the '95 thick planchet/Lettered Edge cents are scarce, so it's most likely a 1794.
Adding after a little more thought and checking- not a '93, as that appears to be single leaf, stem pointing up, after DOLLAR. Sounds like the 93's have a leaf cluster, and most of the '94 Head of 93's have the stem pointing down.
From the 1790's but so far gone it may not be worth bothering with unless it can be shown to be ultra-rare Sheldon number.
From my perspective, it is an NC-1 (non collectible one) for me - sorry, a little Sheldon/EAC humor....
Yep.... Looks like a large cent from the 1700's.... Cannot tell much more.... Looks as if it were buried in unfriendly soil for a long time. Cheers, RickO
Looks like a 1794 Head of 1794 to me. The amount of space between the highest wave of hair and LIBERTY would eliminate 1795, and the same wave on 1793 would be further to the right under the T -- looks like under the R from these images.
Can you get a weight?
Low Ball Candidate, possibly a PO.0000001
If this coin was straight graded as a PO.0000001 I would immediately submit it to CAC to see if it would receive a green bean or even a gold bean.
It looks very high end for whatever grade it is.
Do the grading services ever use the Basal State-0 grade?
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There are a few issues which are sufficiently unique even very worn condition to be identifiable. The 1793 half cent is an example, specimens no doubt exist in BS 00
I don’t think so. I’ve seen some in holders so completely worn down that nearly no details are visible but enough to identify it. They graded it PO-01.
my first impression was 1794
I like it!
This makes sense since a Basal State coin is by definition unidentifiable so no grading service would slab such a coin.
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