1798 or 1799 Draped Bust Copper Large Cent?

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• matt_dac Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2019 6:41PM

  Sadly unreadable date...

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• coin22lover Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭

  July 9, 2019 8:37PM

  Certainly a 98

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• Dave99B Posts: 8,746 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2019 9:25PM

  98

  Dave

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• CRH4LIFE Posts: 849 ✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2019 9:28PM

  +1 for 98

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• lkenefic Posts: 8,736 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2019 10:19PM

  Is there a word missing on the reverse? ?

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• BillJones Posts: 34,964 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 10, 2019 5:03AM

  1798

  There is diagnostic spot on the reverse for the 1799. That spot is gone on this piece, perhaps for a reason.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 10, 2019 5:53AM

  1798.... Looking at the pictures, it seems to show the full rounded top of an eight as opposed to the curve of the nine...Cheers, RickO

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