Longacre's flying eagle design. This was apparently copied from Christian Gobrecht's dollar and half dollar patterns in the late 1830s. This is one of the first attempts to create a smaller copper cent. This obverse was combined with 2 or 3 different reverse designs. On this one, there are three leaves beneath the "E" in "States" and was only used on this pattern. As the central portion of the illustrated piece appears weak, it was likely rejected. Examples are known as follows: To see all available images, click here. Bronze J165B/P191 with the following 5 or 6 confirmed: 1) Smithsonian, illustrated above, click on the thumbnail image to enlarge 2) Farouk. Bolender 3/55, unknown intermediates, Stacks 10/90 - PCGS66RB 3) Stacks 1/07, Heritage 1/10 FUN as PCGS64BN, Simpson-Heritage 2/21 - PCGS65BN 4) Jack Borckardt (Fort Findlay Enterprises) 6/82-John D. Wright 1/18/06-Bob Grellman & Chris McCawley 4/3/06, Goldberg 2/11 - PCGS63BN, 96.1 grains 5) Brewer-Kagins 3/17 - PCGS62BN 6) an example graded PCGSAU50BN on PCGS.com/CoinFacts One of these is ex Brenner-1914 ANS, Brand (journal #92500:191) To see all 3 reverses side by side, click here. Photo courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution.