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Some 1796 Draped Bust cents (disclaimer: big pic)

rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Here are four 1796 Draped cents from my collection. Thought you'd all like to see some beat up coppers for a change. Comments welcome.


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  • GonfunkoGonfunko Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭
    Nice coins! I like old copper....wish I had one. I still need 1796 for my date set.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Nice beat up coppers.
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Nice! That's the way old coins are supposed to look. There's something (besides the price) about MS coins I just don't like.
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Very nice S-103, 104, 109, and 110. the 1796 draped busts are TOUGH coins. Officially they have a mintage twice that of the caps but I suspect the figures must be way off because the caps show up about three to four times as often as the Draped bust coins. (At any medium sized show you can usually find several caps but you will usually be lucky to find even one Draped bust of any variety, not including stocks of copper specialist dealers.) And although there are almost three times as many varieties of draped bust they are almost all scarce to rare.
  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would agree that 1796 draped busts are a real pain to locate. How many of you collect large cents by date, but don't have a 1796 draped, or have an ugly filler or two? There's a reason for it. The problem is that there are many interesting varieties, including Reverse of 1794, Reverse of 1795, Reverse of 1797, and LIHERTY. Everyone who collects large cents by Redbook variety must get four 1796's, increasing the pressure on this already scarce date. Then there are the people who try to get all of them by Sheldon variety. These people hoard essentially them because they need 28 different 1796 draped busts to complete their collection, not including the NC coins. There are a lot of collectors who specialize in one year of early large cents, and 1796 is a popular one to pick.

    Also, throw your Redbook and greysheet in the garbage can on this one. The book prices are too low.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Good stuff. I love nice, relatively problem-free early copper with nice, even coloration -- in any condition. image
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    that's an excellet quartet of coins.

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  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    Excellent copper...thanks for the pics!
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>These people hoard essentially them because they need 28 different 1796 draped busts to complete their collection, not including the NC coins. >>


    And I'm one of the guilty ones, I have 27 of them. Only missing the S-96.

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