1818 1C, BN MS63BN 认证号08173037, PCGS号1600

I was thinking, wouldn't it be satisfying to re-unite specimens of the Randall Hoard, all in PCGS Generation-1 holders? This charming example is my first. Quoting from Q. David Bowers' chapter on the subject, "It seems to be the consensus that a small wooden keg filled with uncirculated copper cents was found beneath a railroad station platform in Georgia after the Civil War, but before autumn, 1869." The Georgia merchant who discovered the hoard was John Randall; hence, the name. Five thousand to ten thousand uncirculated, copper Coronet Cents dated 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 are believed to be among the coins found, making these years somewhat more available in Mint State. As an N-10 variety, I believe this coin was part of the hoard.

Ron Guth

The 1818 Large Cent is the second most common date of the Matron Head Cents based on the populations of those certified by PCGS.  It is easily the most common date in Mint State thanks to the Randall Hoard, from which most of these coins originate.  The hoard of thousands of Cents dated from 1816-1820 was named after John Randall, a Georgia merchant who claimed to have found the coins after the Civil War, buried in the ground.  The hoard was disseminated by Edward Cogan, a dealer of some renown, who later had to defend the Randall Hoard coins against accusations that they were restrikes.  Apparently, dealers and collectors could not believe that full red Large Cents could have survived in such large quantities.  

Today, most Uncirculated 1818 Large Cents are of the Brown designation.  Less than a fourth of the examples certified by PCGS have earned the Red-Brown designation.  Those that are full Red are very rare.