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What Year Is This Large Cent?

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 Posted 09/26/2024  4:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Alpha2814 to your friends list
Chances of 1815 are slim to none. As much as I see the 5, I don't see a 25 or 35 from these pics. So I'm going with 1816 as well.
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 Posted 09/26/2024  5:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list

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Chances of 1815 are slim to none.

I'd go with "none" as no Large Cents were ever struck with the 1815 date on them. I agree with 1816 -
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 Posted 09/26/2024  5:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list
Comparing the 1816 to the 1818.........

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 Posted 09/26/2024  6:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jpsned to your friends list
I vote 1815.
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 Posted 09/26/2024  6:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list

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I vote 1815.

No Large Cents were ever struck with the 1815 date on them

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 Posted 09/26/2024  11:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
I'll say 1816.
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 Posted 09/27/2024  04:17 am  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list
Has to be 1816.
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 Posted 09/27/2024  07:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nfine to your friends list

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No Large Cents were ever struck with the 1815 date on them


Sadly, that doesn't mean 1815 dated large cents don't exist. We see coins that were never produced by the US mint on this site far too often.

I'm not suggesting the OPs coin is fake, only that 1815 large cents could exist.
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 Posted 09/27/2024  08:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add igwt79 to your friends list
181?
Condition makes this very difficult to determine. Likely not 1815 though.
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 Posted 09/27/2024  08:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Liag49 to your friends list
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" I like it because it looks antiquish and could have been held by some of the people who founded America. "

I was passed down a couple of Colonial Era coins which are in poor condition and I feel the same way about them. It's amazing to think of their journey.
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 Posted 09/27/2024  1:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list

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only that 1815 large cents could exist.


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 Posted 09/27/2024  1:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Keith67 to your friends list
From PCGS

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No large cents were struck in 1815 due to a fire at the Mint, this being the only year in which One cent pieces (of any size) were not made.
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 Posted 09/27/2024  4:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jacrispies to your friends list
I think you should attribute it by die variety, confirming the date. As it sits, it appears to be an altered 1816.


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No large cents were struck in 1815 due to a fire at the Mint, this being the only year in which One cent pieces (of any size) were not made.


The fire burned in January 1816, meaning it was not the primary reason why 1815 cents were never struck. The war of 1812, lasting until 1815, put immense pressures on coin production and the availability of precious metals to make coins with. People were hoarding metals that would otherwise be usually coined at the mint. Copper planchets were being sourced from England (note how corroded classic heads come), but no planchets were able to arrive in the U.S. since an embargo was enacted between the combating nations. It was a slow year, seen in the lack of 1815-dated issues across all denominations except low mintages of quarters, half dollars, and half eagles.
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 Posted 09/28/2024  10:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add machine20 to your friends list
I don't think it's an 1816. Numbers are too close together
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 Posted 11/18/2024  10:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinonaut to your friends list
I see a 6.
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