Monograph of United States cents and half cents issued between the years 1793 and 1857: to which is added a table of the principal coins, tokens, jetons, medalets, patterns of coinage and Washington pieces, generally classified under the head of colonial coins. A contribution to the numismatic history of the United States (1879)
hair flows in slender locks, the lower one extending into thebeaded circle, the second and third being nearly as long. The edge bears thevine and bars. The sprig is closer to the neck of the bust than in othervarieties, and the three leaves are nearly at right angles to each other. Theone. on the… … THE HALF CENTS. CLASS I. THE LIBERTY CAP HALF CENTS.1793. Illustrated by three obverses and three reverses. (Plate V.) General description. Head of Liberty facing to the left. The hair isconfined around the head by a narrow band, and falls over and behind theshoulder, terminating in pointed locks;…
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