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Is There Even One Bargain Among Flying Eagle Cents?

n looking back through the Bargain Collector columns we have put together, and at the rather wide variety of series we have taken any kind of look at, there are a couple from which we have simply stayed away. The very short-lived Flying Eagle cents are one. After all, with only two years of issue that were designed for circulation, it’s hard to find or create any sort of pattern for these pieces, and thus to determine if any of them might qualify as bargains. We either buy a couple or

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