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How many old US coppers do you have?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Maybe 25+ This only includes large cents and Half Cents. Suffering from bust half fever. Want to learn how to attribute early half dollars by die variety? Click Here: http://goccf.com/t/434955Shoot me a PM if you are looking to sell bust halves. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not a real lot of just Copper but some pipes and lots of Pennies. Maybe in the thousands.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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maybe about 80 or 85 large cents mostly. few Half Cents too |
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 . Define "old" John1  |
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United States
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To CCF , well if your talking about Wheat cents then I also have in the thousands . |
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United States
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Define "old" For me "old copper" is limited to US Mint produced Half Cent, large cent and Two Cent Pieces. By that definition I have a bit over 100. I didn't include pre-colonials and colonials although other collectors could certainly include them. |
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United States
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If old is the 1857 and earlier classics, I have the seven in my 7070.  |
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to the CCF! Checking my database, I presently have as follows .... Large Cents - 1,299 Half Cents - 123 Two Cents - 95 Indian cents - 301 All of the above coppers are counterstamped, akin to my avatar, being 1,818 pieces. I didn't count the hundreds of early tokens, Colonials, Hard Times, Civil War, etc. Also, I don't maintain a count on the unstamped coppers.  Edited by ExoGuy
11/16/2021 11:35 am
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Checking my database, I presently have as follows ....  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Not enough, until we add in 2 cent pieces, then just about enough. I'm sitting on somewhere north of 2000 Two Cent Pieces I think.  Only a handful of EAC coinage. Now in books it's the opposite, as I'm well over a fifth of my numismatic library is on early coppers. There are around 3000 volumes in it according to my database. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440Edited by westcoin
11/16/2021 11:19 am
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I have zero, I'm currently looking for the ones to fill my 7070.
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It's been some time since I tried counting, but back in 2018 I came up with these counts.
Large cents 1,313+
Indians 6,000+
Wheats ?
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I have zero, I'm currently looking for the ones to fill my 7070. It is a fun section to complete.  Quote:
Large cents 1,313+  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It depends on what you mean by copper.....bronze too? I don't have any 2 cent pieces or Half Cents to count. I have 3 or 4 Flowing Hair Liberty cents, and no other large cents. I have lots and lots of small cents. I have far more big French coppers than US. I found that I can get a really nice 1790's French copper coin for the price of a really bad 1790's US copper coin. In the period of the French Revolution these coins really stretched the definition of copper.... "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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11/16/2021 4:24 pm
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Lets see... my database says I have: Half Cents: 2 Large cents: 4 Pre-Lincoln small cents: 12 Two Cents: 2 I also own two hard times tokens, and one Virginia 1773 halfpenny. As I'm in Australia, all of these coins are of course part of my "world coins" collection. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Posted 11/15/2021 10:25 pm
