I am the proud owner of an 1888 Indian Head Cent. I love looking at it! I ask it oftentimes: "Where have you been?" I wonder if it has been in the front lines of the war, or in the poor box, or in a little boy's pocket, or in a purse of an old lady.

Produced by the United States Mint from 1859 to 1909 and designed by the Chief Engraver at the Philadelphia Mint, James Barton Longacre, the Indian Head cent was very popular and was struck in large numbers in most years.

Longacre advocated his Indian Head design in an August 21, 1858, letter to the Mint Director James Ross Snowden:

From the copper shores of Lake Superior, to the silver mountains of Potosi from the Ojibwa to the Araucanian, the feathered tiara is as characteristic of the primitive races of our hemisphere, as the turban is of the Asiatic. Nor is there anything in its decorative character, repulsive to the association of Liberty ... It is more appropriate than the Phrygian cap, the emblem rather of the emancipated slave, than of the independent freeman, of those who are able to say "we were never in bondage to any man". I regard then this emblem of America as a proper and well defined portion of our national inheritance; and having now the opportunity of consecrating it as a memorial of Liberty, 'our Liberty', American Liberty; why not use it? One more graceful can scarcely be devised. We have only to determine that it shall be appropriate, and all the world outside of us cannot wrest it from us.

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It is, indeed, lovely!

These are my other 1888 coins.

😍#ilikeitalot!😍

Best Regards,
@silversaver888

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