1864 Indian Head Cent


1864 Indian Head Cent

Bronze

Proof Mintage: 150
Obverse Text: 1864 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | LIBERTY
Reverse Text: ONE CENT

Certified Brown Percentage: 28%
Certified Red and Brown Percentage: 58%
Certified Red Percentage: 7%
Certified Cameo Percentage: 6%

Flying Eagle and Indian cent expert Rick Snow (2014) estimates that the Mint struck 300 Proofs of this issue, a one-year type as the only Indian cent produced in bronze composition without the designer's initial L on the obverse. Snow-PR2 accounts for the vast majority of survivors, the author asserting that upward of 200 specimens were coined from these dies.

View 1864 Bronze Indian Head Cent Auction Results

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the March 2012 Baltimore Auction, where it realized $16,100.

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