1793 FLOWING HAIR CENT,
WREATH REVERSE
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 63,353
Proofs: 0
Designer: attributed
to Adam Eckfeldt
Diameter: ±27 millimeters
Metal content:
Copper - 100%
Weight: ±208 grains
(±13.5 grams)
Edge: see
individual varieties. Could be:
1. Vine and vertical bars, alternating
2. Lettered: ONE HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR with one leaf after DOLLAR, or
3. Lettered: ONE HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR with two leaves after DOLLAR
Mintmarks: None (all
examples of this type were struck at the Philadelphia Mint)
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Images courtesy of
Heritage
Numismatic Auctions
Recent appearances:
1793 S-11a.
Rarity-4+. Wreath, Vine
and Bars Edge. EF-45.
Ex – American Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics
Sale,”
July 25, 2003
,
Lot
107, illustrated, sold for $52,900.00.
Last publicly auctioned in
1933.
Notes:
The finest "Vine/Bars Edge" Brown example graded by PCGS is
a single MS-69BN.
The finest "Vine/Bars Edge" Red-Brown example graded by PCGS is
a single MS-67RB.
The finest "Vine/Bars Edge" Red example graded by PCGS is a
single MS-68RD.
The finest "Lettered Edge" Brown example graded by PCGS is a
single MS-63BN.
Sources and/or recommended
reading:
"The PCGS Population Report, October 2003" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
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