ost collectors of early American 1-cent pieces know that a complete date set of cents would not include the year 1815 as no cents were minted with that date. So, the obvious answer to the title question would be 1815, right? Wrong! The correct answer is that cents were struck in 1815, but not in 1823. Yet, cents dated 1823 exist. So, let’s see if we’ve got this straight: No cents dated 1815 exist, yet
