Flying Eagle Cents Pocket Size Album
The shortest circulating cent type receives a pocket sized album.









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The One Cent coin with its present diameter of 19 millimeters first debuted in 1856 as a pattern to gauge the interest ofmembers of the contemporary Congress. Years of rising costs associated with copper brought on experimentation to find a suitable replacement for the old Large Cents. The results were a new composition that was 88 parts copper and 12 parts nickel and noticeably whiter in color.

A design featuring a bald eagle in flight was the preferred imagery for the new Cent. Such an image already appeared on pattern silver dollars designed by Christian Gobrecht in 1836, 1838, and 1839. While those coins seldom circulated, that particular type gave way to the Seated Liberty coinage. Pattern Cents bearing a similar Flying Eagle design were produced in 1854 on copper and bronze planchets. These were of a size slightly reduced from the standard Large Cent. Although the pattern was promising, a further reduction in size and change in composition remained to be realized.
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Flying Eagle Cents

The One Cent coin with its present diameter of 19 millimeters first debuted in 1856 as a pattern to gauge the interest ofmembers of the contemporary Congress. Years of rising costs associated with copper brought on experimentation to find a suitable replacement for the old Large Cents. The results were a new composition that was 88 parts copper and 12 parts nickel and noticeably whiter in color.

A design featuring a bald eagle in flight was the preferred imagery for the new Cent. Such an image already appeared on pattern silver dollars designed by Christian Gobrecht in 1836, 1838, and 1839. While those coins seldom circulated, that particular type gave way to the Seated Liberty coinage. Pattern Cents bearing a similar Flying Eagle design were produced in 1854 on copper and bronze planchets. These were of a size slightly reduced from the standard Large Cent. Although the pattern was promising, a further reduction in size and change in composition remained to be realized.

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