Just for fun. Can you answer this numismatic question correctly without looking it up?
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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
Just for fun. Can you answer this numismatic question correctly without looking it up?
This is a public poll: others will see what you voted for.
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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.
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.
I am hoping @EagleEye and @ThePennyLady get this one correct
Neither option is correct. Sheldon 1 (Chain) thru 76a (1795 Cap) have lettered edges.
I knew someone would find a loophole
No, I could not.
That is why I would research or post the question on this forum.
Simply no point to reeding these copper coins.
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.
@rittenhouse is correct.
AWW man, you ruined the thread.................................
Now we gotta start another one.
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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.
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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I forgot about the lettered edges. I thought the trick was all smooth except the "gripped edge."
Mostly smooth. I've handled enough to know.
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Smooth was poll option closest to correct.
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
smooth edge
I don't have any but remember seeing them with smooth edge
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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