Braided Hair Large Cents
Christian Gobrecht had spent 1839 working through two transitional varieties, the Silly Head and the Booby Head, that represented failed attempts to modernize the Coronet portrait before he arrived…
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Large Cents
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Liberty Cap Large Cents
Joseph Wright prepared the Liberty Cap cent dies in the summer of 1793 and died of yellow fever around September 12 or 13. The 11,056 pieces of the 1793 Liberty Cap cent were delivered to the Mint…
Coronet Head Large Cents
Large cent production resumed in December 1816 after the one-year wartime gap, and with it came a new design by Robert Scot, who had been Chief Engraver since 1793 and was now somewhere in his early…
Flowing Hair Large Cents
The Philadelphia Mint struck its first large cent on February 27, 1793. By the end of that same year it had abandoned two designs, introduced a third, and produced six distinct varieties across two…
Draped Bust Large Cents
The Draped Bust large cent arrived in November 1796 as part of a deliberate effort to bring visual consistency across American coinage. The Mint had been running different portraits on different…
Classic Head Large Cents
Mint Director Robert Patterson brought John Reich to the Philadelphia Mint in April 1807 with a clear mandate: redesign the coinage. Reich was German-born, had paid for his Atlantic passage through a…