A couple of old coppers arrived today
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When I saw these two that robertpr had listed on eBay they spoke to me and I knew that I had to have them. They arrived today and they are both great. Here are Robert's pics of them.
Do large cent collectors collect them by die variety like bust half collectors do? If so could you please tell me the variety. Thanks.
Do large cent collectors collect them by die variety like bust half collectors do? If so could you please tell me the variety. Thanks.
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And the 1820 has all three!
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Seller's a good guy as well.
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Good decision on the purchases.
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etexmike
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Your 1820 cent is a small date, curl 2 variety. The other major "Red Book" varieties for the year are 1820/19 and 1820 large date, knob 2. Few people can tell them apart except cent collectors, and they are constantly misattributed on ebay and elsewhere. On ebay, so-called "small dates" are usually either large dates or 1820/19. The large date is one of the commonest matron head cents and is widely available even in pristine mint state. There were many examples of it in the famous "Randall Hoard." The next commonest "Red Book" variety would be the 1820/19, which has a few minor variations. The scarcest of the three is the 1820 small date, which is really a pain in the butt to locate. It took me 2 years to find a coin I liked on ebay, and I got positively killed on the price when I bought it, as someone else wanted it really, really bad.
Yes, early copper collectors collect by die variety like bust half collectors do. In fact, the large cent people started doing it long before anyone else cared about die varieties. I would say that large cent collectors place more emphasis on die varieties than they ought to, taking variety collecting to the level of insanity. The early large cents are attributed by "Sheldon" variety up to and including 1814. The middle dates 1816-1839 and the late dates 1839-1857 are classified by "Newcomb" variety. That being said, the 1820 date can be broken down as follows: N1, N2, and N3 are three different variations of the 1820/19; N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, and N15 are small dates; and N9, N10, N11, N12, and N14 are large dates. Of the small dates, N15 is the only one that can be located in mint condition for less than a fortune. I attribute yours as an N6, a better variety rated R4 that is probably worth close to what you paid for it. You can view all of the varieties here:
1820 cent varieties on coinfacts.
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The 1810 is an S-284, the toughest 1810. But it is still only an R-3
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