Just for fun. Can you answer this numismatic question correctly without looking it up?

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hchcoin
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Do United States large cents (other than the S-79) have a reeded edge or a smooth edge? Remember - don't look it up before hand :) No cheating o:)

Just for fun. Can you answer this numismatic question correctly without looking it up?

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  • hchcoin
    hchcoin Posts: 4,843 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I was just looking at a new purchase and took it out of the flip by the edge and it made me wonder how many people could correctly identify the edge of a large cent without looking it up.

  • ModCrewman
    ModCrewman Posts: 4,054 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    Oh great it's not a private poll and I'm the first to answer. I answered out of instinct, outside of my area...we'll see if I'm right.

  • hchcoin
    hchcoin Posts: 4,843 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am hoping @EagleEye and @ThePennyLady get this one correct ;)

  • hchcoin
    hchcoin Posts: 4,843 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Rittenhouse said:
    Neither option is correct. Sheldon 1 (Chain) thru 76a (1795 Cap) have lettered edges.

    I knew someone would find a loophole :p

  • Hemispherical
    Hemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No, I could not. :/

    That is why I would research or post the question on this forum. :)

  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    Simply no point to reeding these copper coins.

  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    Smooth edge for almost all of the time, but before late December 1795, they had a lettered edge or the “stars and bars” edge from all Chain Cents and most Wreath Cents. The lettered edge started with the S-11 variety, which comes both ways.

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  • EagleEye
    EagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @rittenhouse is correct.

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  • BuffaloIronTail
    BuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    @hchcoin said:

    @Rittenhouse said:
    Neither option is correct. Sheldon 1 (Chain) thru 76a (1795 Cap) have lettered edges.

    I knew someone would find a loophole :p

    AWW man, you ruined the thread.................................

    Now we gotta start another one. ;)

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  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    :D

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  • hchcoin
    hchcoin Posts: 4,843 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I honestly had never thought about it until today when I took the coin out of the flip. You can learn something new almost every day in numismatics if you want to.

  • BlindedByEgo
    BlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    Since coin edges were reeded to discourage filing of coin edges for profit, and copper was relatively cheap, Large Cents weren't reeded. I didn't think that you would forget lettered edges (or gripped, or vine and bars for that matter), so I clicked on the more correct poll answer :)

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  • Insider2
    Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I forgot about the lettered edges. I thought the trick was all smooth except the "gripped edge."

  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    Mostly smooth. I've handled enough to know.

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  • BJandTundra
    BJandTundra Posts: 401 ✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    Smooth was poll option closest to correct.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    I voted smooth... since all the large cents I have are smooth....and I do not have a lot... ;) However, I do know why they added reeding to precious metals coins....and knowing copper was not a PM.... Ergo, smooth. Cheers, RickO

  • Paradisefound
    Paradisefound Posts: 8,623 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Smooth edge

    smooth edge

    I don't have any but remember seeing them with smooth edge :)

  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,763 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The smooth edge large cents began during the later part of the 1795 production and continued to the end of the series in 1857. The 1793 to the early 1795 large cents had some type of edge design such as the lettered edge or vine and bars edge.

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