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PacoinPacoin Posts: 19 ✭✭
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Not much left on this liberty cap.
It has the lettered edge.
I know odds are that its a 1794 (by mintages)
Is there anything there that anyone sees that can confirm that?
Thanks

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My conclusion is that it's a 1794.

    In your favor is that there are very few varieties of '95 Lib cap cents with the thick planchet/lettered edge.
    The only one with a thick pole significantly removed from torso like yours is the S 73.
    The position and shape of the "9" in your date is wrong for an S 73.
    Ergo, your coin is a 1794

    FWIW -

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bumping this for @jesbroken, our burgeoning early copper aficionado, and others, to get their opinions.

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  • dhikewhitneydhikewhitney Posts: 475 ✭✭✭✭

    Nice; so a 1794 can be determined by the shape of the 9. I cannot make out the 9 in mine ( https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1080331/guess-the-date-of-draped-bust-large-cent#latest ) so its a lost cause.

  • WilliamFWilliamF Posts: 831 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerguy21D said:
    My conclusion is that it's a 1794.

    In your favor is that there are very few varieties of '95 Lib cap cents with the thick planchet/lettered edge.
    The only one with a thick pole significantly removed from torso like yours is the S 73.
    The position and shape of the "9" in your date is wrong for an S 73.
    Ergo, your coin is a 1794

    FWIW -

    Agree, also if you know the series well enough you will see a slight difference in the shape of Libertys head between the head of '94 and the head of '95 that they used on the 1795 Lettered edge planchets, the head of 1794 is slightly taller and thinner than the '95.
    Also the hair, chin and nose are all shaped a little different between the 2 varieties, and from what I can see in the pictures it is a head of 1794.

    Just my 1 cent ;)

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dhikewhitney said:
    Nice; so a 1794 can be determined by the shape of the 9. I cannot make out the 9 in mine (

    I didn’t say that; I deduced that it’s not a 1795 by looking at several markers, along with the information provided by the OP (the lettered edge, which eliminates many of the ‘95s and all of the ‘96s), that I assumed was accurate.

    I can also discern enough from the portrait that it’s not a ‘93 Liberty cap cent, that also has a lettered edge.

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  • PacoinPacoin Posts: 19 ✭✭

    Thank you all for the input. It is most definitely lettered edge, I didn't see a point to getting a "rim shot". 😉

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