Classic Head Large Cent New For Type Set!

That would blow my coin budget for a year! Nice coin!

Received the coin today. It is a nice dark chocolate brown in hand. Great detail, and absolutely no micro-porosity or corrosion. However, it is a bit glossy, and I imagine it was lightly polished/conserved at some point. Combined with the fact that it doesn't retain much luster is probably what knocked it out of an AU grade. Though the pictures make the obverse nicks look bad, they aren't distracting in hand. Here are some updated pics, and some other pictures with the rest of my large/half cents in the 7070.

They are not necessarily susceptible to corrosion now if stored properly. However, many of these coins had problems when they were first minted. Most of the planchets were imported from Britain and the kegs of planchets were occasionally used as ship ballast so they came into contact with sea water on the voyage across the pond. The copper also tended to be of lower quality than that used for the Draped Bust cents. Because of these problems, some planchets had corrosion on them even before the coin was minted! Also remember that later production of Classic Heads was occurring the during the War of 1812 which lasted until 1815. All of these factors add up to the overall lowest quality coin series ever produced by the US Mint.