Braided Hair Large Cent
Struck 35% Off-Center
NGC MS 64 BN
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Although off-center Large Cents are available, they are generally 5% to 20% off-center and in an extremely low grade of preservation. This Braided Hair type Large Cent (1840-1857) was struck at least 35% off-center and is in gem mint state condition.

This is one of the finest known off-center Large Cents. I purchased it in 1975 from the Bolt Collection of mint errors. I was fortunately enough to purchase it again after 30 years and it is still one of my favorite Large Cent errors.

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This Large Cent was featured in my
1975 catalog of Major Mint Errors.


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Off-Center Strikes are featured in Chapter 18 of my
NLG award winning book, World's Greatest Mint Errors:

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