Product Information
<h2>Ron Guth</h2><p>The 1871 Two-Cent piece is the last of the high-mintage dates in this series. Though it's mintage was less than a million pieces, this date survives in Mint State to nearly the same extent as other dates with much higher mintages except for the 1864 and 1865.</p><p>Red-Brown examples are plentiful up through MS64, above which the populations drop off, ending at MS66, where a single example is noted.</p><p>Red examples are scarce, and are usually found in MS64 and MS65. Here, the best examples include two in MS66RD.</p>Product Identifiers
DesignerJames Barton Longacre
eBay Product ID (ePID)170398045
Product Key Features
ColorBrown
Strike TypeBusiness
Mint LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
CompositionBronze
Additional Product Features
Mintage72125
MintPhiladelphia
Denomination2C
PCGS Number3609