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LOT 4319
United States of America CU Cent. Dated 1862. Philadelphia mint. "Indian Head Cent" with shield type.
Designs by James Barton Longacre. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Liberty head wearing Indian headdress to left, date below / ONE CENT within wreath with shield at the top, knot tying the wreath holding arrows. KM 90. Good Very Fine.(4.76gr, 19mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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