A 200+ Consecutive Year Run Of US Cents! Anybody Else?

Well you beat me to beating nss-52!!

Great minds think alike!

Now that is an impressive accomplishment (I will probably never get an 1877). Congrats!

That is a great story!

That's the other side of the family.

She referred to herself as a "New England Swamp Yankee" which meant British, Dutch and Huguenot French.

1877 would be a pain, and 1922 not much less of one (and I think there are a few other uncommon dates in the IHC run - and then of course there's 1857), but now I'm seriously considering putting this set as one of my long-term goals.

Not sure if this is actually doable, even in theory, with any other country and/or denomination (it's certainly impossible for any other US denomination, due to the missing years 1922 [for nickels and dimes] and 1975 [for quarters and halves], plus the big gap in the 1950s when nothing above a half dollar was made).

A nice non-ridiculous idea would be to get at least one coin of any country and denomination from every year reasonably far back.
Once I get a 2017 coin I'll have every single date from 2018 (the Russian 25 ruble soccer commemorative) back to something like the 1890s (I don't recall what the first missing one is); I've heard of some people with a full run back to the early 18th century.
One of my long-term goals is to get a full date run back to 1500 or so; any further than that will probably be entirely unaffordable (unless you rely on Arabic dates and/or dateless single-year types). How far back can we go? 1491, apparently.
(Last time I checked it was still an open question whether a full date chain from 1 AD, including any possible calendars and counting dateless single-year types, is possible even in theory. Best I can tell, assorted Arabic dates give a continuous list back to the 670s or so - at which point they are sporadically joined by Byzantine regnals - and there's a lot of varied options before 350-ish, but for the 5th century things get tricky.)

Amazing accomplishment... congratulations

Wonderful story too. We should all have such a nice aunt.

Your story made me check to see how close I would be to having a 200
year set...... I am missing 25 to get back to 1816.

Now that's a great accomplishment and nice to see that the one cent piece has been cared for by your family for so long.

To answer your question about other runs like this (200+ years of one specific coin): The answer is quite simple: it's impossible with other currencies. No country has held its currency for as long as the USA, also without changing denominations. As NumisRob said: the British have a few large gaps plus there was the big reorganization in the monetary system in the 1960, so a penny before is something completely different than a penny after. Even sovereigns have some hiatus and a few key dates which are impossible to get hold of, like the 1937 Edward VIII (you'll probably need a million $ or so to get hold of one, if it ever comes on auction during your lifetime).

For what I know, for example, the Dutch have minted cents since 1817, when The Netherlands became a kingdom... However, may years are lacking (even modern ones like 1947 and 1981: in those years no official Dutch coins were struck), and no cents have been made between 1980 and 1999. And then the new cent was the Euro cent, so it's just not the same.

so, good job and I really hope you'll manage to get hold of the last lacking years since US coinage started!