1793 Flowing Hair Cent. Wreath Reverse. S-8. Rarity-3. Vine and Bars Edge. AU Details--Rim Damage (PCGS).With rich glossy copper and olive brown patina to overall smooth surfaces, there is a lot of "coin" here for the assigned grade. Both sides are well enough centered in strike to display virtually full border beading. The texture is satiny and tight with hardly any marks. A thin arcing flan flaw in the upper left reverse field is as made, tiny reverse rim nick outside the letters ES in STATES, the PCGS qualifier concerns an area of disturbance at 5 oclock on the same side. Sharply defined for the type with strong eye appeal, this attractive AU is worthy of a close look, and also a strong bid. Noyes Die State C/B.<p>After the quick condemnation of Henry Voigts Chain cents, the task of revising the design was given to Adam Eckfeldt. Eckfeldt greatly refined and improved Libertys bust, added a leafy sprig below her, an replaced the widely reviled chains with a lush wreath, and all with edges that have an incuse Vine & Bars motif. Even as artistically accomplished as the new design proved to be, the uncoiffed hair was still unpopular but not before 63,353 Wreath cents were coined and entered circulation. Mint Director David Rittenhouse brought on Joseph Wright to design and prepare new punches for the next design, the Liberty Cap cents. As the first year of the new mint, the varieties of 1793 cents have long been among the most popular coins in all of American numismatics, including the Wreath cents with their splendid high relief features that probably took some effort to properly strike up to their fullest potential. As with their predecessors, the Wreath cents entered commercial use and remained there for many years, as the typical very low grade and heavily impaired survivors can attest. Here is a remarkable exception.