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Liberty Capped Large Cent 1793 - 1796
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Dissatisfied with Eckfeldt's designs, mint director Rittenhouse hired Joseph Wright
to do another redesign in the troubled first year of the one cent. Wright faced
Liberty to the right and "tamed" her wild hair. The cap was added as a symbol of
freedom, it was often worn in the French Revolution. The reverse design was a laurel
wreath, and Robert Scot aided with several revisions to the design over the next three years.
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Vital Stats.
Content: 100% copper
Designer 1793: Robert Scot
Designer 1794: Joseph Wright / Robert Scot
Designer 1795-1796: Robert Scot
| 1793 | 28.5 mm | 13.5 grams | 2 edges:
Lettered: ONE HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR with one leaf after DOLLAR, leaf points down
Lettered: ONE HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR with one leaf after DOLLAR, leaf points up |
| 1794 | 28 mm | 13.5 grams |
| 1795 | 28 mm | 13.5 grams,
reduced to 10.9 grams at the end of the year | 3 EDGES:
Lettered
Plain
Reeding |
| 1796 | 28 mm | 10.9 grams | Plain |
Year/
Mint | Circulation
Strikes |
1793  | 11,056 |
| 1794 | 918,521 |
| 1795 | 538,500 |
| 1796 | 109,285 |
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Type 1
Beaded Border
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Type 2
Denticled Border
1794 Type 4, Liberty Cap 'Starred Rim'
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The new design continued into 1796, but in 1795, planchets became too thin for the
edge lettering because of a weight reduction, so the mint stopped edge lettering
on the cent, and the rest of these coins were made with a plain edge.
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