Hi everyone. Its been a while. So I chose my two cent piece. The first coin is a pattern coin enlarge it you can see the obverse and reverse. The second is the coin used. If you notice the reverse of both coins are the same! They decided to keep that. 
          The two cent piece showed up in 1864 and had a short run till1873. Why? The coin looked good so good its looked for today. Then why? Well the nickel showed up and the people liked that better. Imagine the people stopped the use of the coin! It was designed by James Longacre. 

       Basically known for the first American coin to say "In God We Trust". Collectors have not given up on this one coin. They still look for them today. It was made of 90% copper and 5% tin and zink. The diameter is 23 mm and weighs 96 grms.  The 1864 had a small motto. The Large motto has been found in that year and the years after.

 Nice and short with the important parts included Of course there will always be more. That's were you come in and look them up!!

          Believe or not there was a proof coin made. That I would like to own. Now I can tell you these coins in a MS will draw big sums. If you look at the obverse slowly you can see the difference. Back in those days people use to put lacquer on there coins hoping to make them last. After a while it would dry and pieces would fall off. The reverse was not done I don't know why but the strange obverse shows the peeling in some spots. .  This coin you can see the whole motto. Most of them the WE would were down because of the high relief. Those are hard to find but there out there. 
           So if your looking to collect these there was a very low vintage the last year. Something like 6500 coins.But as I said any coin no matter what the mintage is worth more than two cents!! I hope you enjoyed this short blog. On a coin the people turned down because the nickel made everything easy. Be safe and enjoy!!