Keeping and filling out an inherited IHC album. Part # 7: Cents from 1882 - 1885.
SkyMan
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I haven't posted in over a year, so I'm copying the original post (Part # 1) to start off Part #7.
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About 35 years ago I inherited from my paternal grandparents a partially filled IHC Whitman album. Most of the coins were in the lower to mid circulated range. While I have always enjoyed IHC's they were not a series that I collected at that point in time.
Around 10 years ago, I got much more into doing albums, and decided to complete the IHC album. In a few cases I also upgraded a slot or five. Interestingly enough, the earlier dates were all filled in, while the latter more common dates were not. The first empty slot was 1876, and the next one was 1884. After 1884, empty slots became common.
In order to keep the guts of the collection true to my grandparents collecting, I bought a ~ VG 1876 for the hole, and did not upgrade any coin until the year 1880. From about 1888 forward, the coins I bought, for the most part, tended to be high grade sliders to MS64. I'LL POST THE WHOLE ALBUM OVER TIME. For those of you who are coin snobs you might want to wait until 1888 and the latter date coins come rolling around. You'll probably have seen some of these coins, as, over time, I've posted some of them as one offs. In all cases the images are by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job.
BTW, all these coins were imaged BEFORE I had gotten some verdicare to get rid of the verdigris on various of the coins.
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Here are the IHC from 1882 - 1885. The 1882 and 1883 are coins that were originally in the album. 1884 and 1885 were holes in the album and I tried to fill them in with roughly comparable coins to the previous dates.
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Long live album collecting!