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tonedcoinlovertonedcoinlover Posts: 61 ✭✭✭
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With the passing of the cent post your chain cents for us to enjoy.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 24,076 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is splendid! 🤤

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 24,076 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Floridafacelifter said:

    AU55BN

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  • GuzziSportGuzziSport Posts: 382 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 30, 2025 3:30AM

    @Dave99B Your ANACS chain is very nice! Strong date and nice “circ cam”…
    I’m an American history buff, and I agree that chains have a very distinct cachet about them… early federal coins are my primary interest, and I particularly like well circulated, problem free early federal coins most of all. They just have a history and tell a story, and I feel like they have a direct connection to our founders. That’s very cool for a history geek like me.

  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow !
    Those are sure beautiful.......

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,827 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’ve owned three of the other 1793 cents; both Wreath types, and the Liberty cap, but never a Chain.
    That and the 1799 will probably still be on my bucket list to my grave…

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  • Coins3675Coins3675 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭✭

    I wish I could have one

  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,780 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerguy21D said:
    I’ve owned three of the other 1793 cents; both Wreath types, and the Liberty cap, but never a Chain.
    That and the 1799 will probably still be on my bucket list to my grave…

    Same. The1799 has also been on my list for a long, long time. I’d love to add one to my collection. Tough, tough, tough.

    Dave

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  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @renomedphys said:





    It’s eventual temporary home:

    There's something magical about a chain cent that looks this nice. Congrats!

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  • tonedcoinlovertonedcoinlover Posts: 61 ✭✭✭

    OK. Great coins.
    Now let's try this.
    Post a picture of a Chain cent that you would LOVE to own or see in person.
    They are out there!

  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,835 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those au's are nice!

  • renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone please post a picture of THE COIN 🙏🏻

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,814 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks, Everyone, for sharing...

    @Eddi ...maybe the "bottom of the ladder" in this thread, but at least you're ON THE LADDER! This is one of those dates that's been elusive for me. I'm definitely looking at lower price points and the individual coins were nowhere near the details of yours! When I was getting back into collecting (early 2000's) a dealer in Albuquerque offered me a raw Chain Cent that the only detail on the obverse was a wisp of Ms. Liberty's profile amid surface corrosion (no date) and the reverse was corroded, cleaned, scratched, and someone had started to drill a hole in the middle. There were 3 or 4 links in the chain visible, so you could definitely tell what it was... and it was STILL over $1k!

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2025 5:47PM

    Rare, rare, rare and magical pieces of history. Copper is not in my wheelhouse, though I DO appreciate it. Too many other things that I am more interested in. Chains have really appreciated over the decades and are not obtainable by those (such as myself) who only make halfhearted or feeble attempts at purchasing them. if you want a Chain, you will have to go after it with conviction. There are too many other things that I would rather throw my money at first. So, for this reason, I will just have to admire these beautiful pictures. Thank you everyone for sharing. o:)

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  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2025 7:50PM

    @Walkerguy21D said:

    Above is an amazing S-1 Chain Cent (on PCGS CoinFacts), but it is not "The Coin".
    Although you did not say it was, some might conclude it is, given that your post followed a post with a request for The Coin.

    I've never seen a good color photo of The Coin.
    Just a slab shot in a group from the Naftzger collection.
    There is a great black and white photo of The Coin on page 179 of Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of Colonial and U.S. Coins.

    Key to 1793 Chain Cents

    Description Sheldon Breen
    AMERI. Reverse 1 1
    Widest date 2 2
    Close date and LIBERTY 3 4
    Periods after date and LIBERTY 4 5
    Widest LIBERTY NC-1 3

    from
    https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/category/half-cents/flowing-hair-large-cent/type-1-chain-cent-1793/656

    Here's a pretty good roster:
    https://coinweek.com/1793-chain-cent-a-collectors-guide/
    "The Coin" is known as an S-4.
    The above coinweek article calls it an NC-1, but this is incorrect.
    NC-1 has "widest LIBERTY", and does not have periods after LIBERTY and 1793.

    In a 2011 Forum post, @tradedollarnut said The Coin was in the Stellar Collection in Georgia.
    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/9402091/#Comment_9402091

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,827 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @yosclimber said:

    @Walkerguy21D said:

    Above is an amazing Chain Cent (on PCGS CoinFacts), but it is not "The Coin".
    Although you did not say it was, some might conclude it is, given that your post followed a post with a request for The Coin.

    I've never seen a good color photo of The Coin.
    Just a slab shot in a group from the Naftzger collection.
    There is a great black and white photo of The Coin in Breen's Encyclopedia.

    Here's a pretty good roster:
    https://coinweek.com/1793-chain-cent-a-collectors-guide/
    "The Coin" is the NC-1 at the end with no photo.

    You are correct, I was going from memory from a 1995(?) advertisement from Jay Parrino, who offered both of the superb Mickley Chain cents in his catalog. The one on the left is the one I posted, but the one on the right is “The Coin “. I shall have double checked:

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  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2025 7:41PM


    Here's the group slab photo I remembered.
    The Coin is the AMERICA Mickley SP67BN at 4:00.
    The AMERI. Mickley is the SP65BN at 8:00.
    On the same countertop and slabs as the photos in your post!
    From a 2025 post by @Inspired70:
    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/13860668/#Comment_13860668

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