1869 Indian Head Penny - Key Date, Rarest of the 1860's - Choose by Condition / Grade - 1869 Cent Foreign Coin and Mint officials

and Mint officials

In the 1860s

but still valid legal tender at their face value and thus are still an accepted form of currency

which may have been a factor in its replacement by the Franklin half dollar beginning in 1948

1869 Indian Head Penny - Key Date, Rarest of the 1860's - Choose by Condition / Grade - 1869 Cent Foreign Coin and Mint officialsThis listing is for one 1869 Indian Head Penny, as pictured. Choose by Coin Grade. The Indian Head cent, also known as an Indian Head penny, was a one cent coin ($0. 01) produced by the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1859 to 1909. It was designed by James Barton Longacre, the Chief Engraver at the Philadelphia Mint. The centenary of the birth of assassinated president Abraham Lincoln would occur in February 1909, and large numbers of privately