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1861 Indian Head Cent PCGS MS63

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1861 Indian Head Cent PCGS MS63
According to a recent <I>Coin World<I> article by Paul Gilkes, "Numismatic lore suggests that Longacre's daughter, Sarah, at the age of 12, became the inspiration for the Indian Head obverse, when, while she visited her father's workplace at the same time a group of Native Americans were visiting the Philadelphia Mint, she tried on one of their headdresses. However, that piece of legend was debunked decades later. The 1861 issue is the scarcest copper-nickel date in the Indian series, 1859-64. (#2061)<p><i>The Silberkleit Collection of Small Cents</i>