1793 WREATH 1C, VINE AND BARS EDGE AU58 Brown

VINE AND BARS. LOVELY CHOCOLATE BROWN SURFACES. S-8. When one considers all die marriages, it is likely that fewer than six or seven percent of the Wreath Cents struck have survived to the present day. These pieces are unique as the only U.S. coins to display an obverse sprig between the date and Liberty's portrait, as well as the reverse berries in linear sprays. Mint State survivors are rare, and most were probably saved either by contemporary citizens as novelties or by British collectors who visited the United States during the early days of Philadelphia Mint operations.