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 . STATES CENTS. ANOTHER WREATH CENT. 1793. Since the preceding pages have been printed, Mr. S. S. Crosby, of Boston,the author of The Early Coins of America, has communicated to us the dis-covery by him of another distinct variety of the 1793 Wreath Cents, but in sopoor a cond
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 . STATES CENTS. ANOTHER WREATH CENT. 1793. Since the preceding pages have been printed, Mr. S. S. Crosby, of Boston,the author of The Early Coins of America, has communicated to us the dis-covery by him of another distinct variety of the 1793 Wreath Cents, but in sopoor a condition as to render the description difficult, and excepting in theparticulars of the legend and the sprig of leaves, somewhat uncertain. In this variety the legend liberty and date are small, similar to thoseupon No. 4. The 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 right is narrow, that in the centre a trifle broader, and in a nearlyperpendicular position, and that on the left nearly twice as broad as that on theright. Reverse: The same as reverse of Nos. 4 and THE HALF CENTS. CLASS I. THE LIBERTY CAP HALF 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; the bust is pointed. Over the rightshoulder is a liberty cap on a staff; above, the legend liberty curving; belowthe date. The reverse has hale cent in a wreath formed of two branches of laurel,ornamented with sprays of berries, and tied together at bottom with a ribbon,In the outward angle formed by the ends of ribbons is the denomination 2ls,around the wreath the legend
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