Best auction catalogs for copper study?

Shoedog

I have the Jack Robinson and Robinson Brown I and II.I'm talking large cents and half cents here.

Any copper bugs have any favorites they would like to recommend?

I'm looking for interesting insights and information.Great photos also help.

My favorite is Jack Robinson-delux edition.Leather slip case and page after page of actual photo plates which can be studied with a loop.Almost like sitting down with a great collection.

I understand John Ford and Breen cataloged some good ones.

Thanks!

PreTurb

Shoedog,

Off the top of my head...

Stack's 1988 Halpern
Merkin 1964 Helfenstein
New Netherlands 1952 ANA
Stack's 1954 Dupont I
Stack's 1984 Starr (2)
Superior 1974 Ruby I
Sup 1990 Chalkley
Sup 1991 Kuntz
Sup 1992 Cohen
Sup 1992 Adams
Sup 2001 Frankenfield

Have fun!

RELLA

Frankenfield; Superior 2/2001
Robinson III; Superior 6/2002

Both these are good recent auctions.



Keep a lookout for Heritage FUN 2005 coming up; the Rasmussen collection will have a seperate catalog which will likely be another must-have for early copper nuts.


RELLA

Shoedog

Thanks for suggestions.

I understand that Superior is having an auction with alot of Large Cents in Sept.Pre Long Beach I think.

Conder101

Do you have the 1986 Robbie Brown (His first set), or the 1996 Robbie Brown (His second set)? I would recommend both, but if you only have one then you want the 1996. I actually like the 1986 sale better but the 1996 sale has more of the NC varieties which you won't see anywhere else. Whenever Dan H ever sells his set you will definitely want his sale catalog. It will be the mst complete set ever sold, and probably the most complete that ever will be. (He has all of the Sheldon numbered varieties and all but two of the NC varieties. Both of the two he is missing are unique and at least one of them is impounded in the ANS collection.

For half cents ther good ones would be the Jerry Cohen collectionand the Bill Webber collection.

Shoedog

Conder,

Yes I have both the 86 and 96 Robinson Brown catalogs.I like them for the extra tidbits of info.Such as, in researching my latest cent a S-232.In the '96 catalog description of the 232 it says the 1 in the date is weak as a result of the cud over the second T in STATES.I never thought of that and never saw it written anywhere.My coin a nice EAC vf 35 exhibits this.This type of knowledge adds to my enjoyment of owning this coin.

In fact I like the catalogs almost as much as the coins themselves.

Also thanks for your explaination of how to identify the different heads on '94s of a few weeks ago.I printed it out and taped it in my Large Cent Encyclopedia.Heads of 93 and 94 are no longer a problem for me.'95 I still struggle with partly because there is only 1 Exact Head of 95 but here are 7 Redbook varities 67-72 and NC3.
Regards,
Steve