Large Cent from my 'Transition Years' Collection - Guess the Grade GRADE POSTED

Walkerguy21D

I've been fascinated for a long time by the large cents (and other coins) of the time period 1835-1843, that showed a lot of transition from the old designs of engraver Robert Scot, to William Kneass, and finally Christian Gobrecht.
This example was acquired from Mary Sauvaghn (sp), who was working for Gary Adkins at the time - so it's been in my possession for a while, but just recently had it photographed:






Here is the original pic of the rev:



And the grade......I may actually be motivated enough to send this one to that sticker company for their opinion:

relicsncoins

Nice copper......MS64BN?

ModCrewman

Don't know anything about the series, but like that design, and a nice coin.

I'd venture a guess of 66 RB.

Mowgli

Beautiful, clean coin.

IrishMikey

MS-64 Brown? Copper is SO hard to grade using images. Balancing the luster and color of a nice large
cent is an art. The correct spelling is Mary Sauvain, by the way.

Broadstruck

Here's the white balance adjusted on your reverse shot

Walkerguy21D

<< <i>Copper is SO hard to grade using images. Balancing the luster and color of a nice large
cent is an art. >>


You are quite right about that, that's why I had it done professionally, because I could never come close.

Thanks Broadstruck - but the reverse really has a little more green and less red. I'll try and play with the original images from the cd a bit more.

renomedphys

Oooh, that's cool! I just picked up an 1839 obverse of 1840 cent, and like you, I think there may be a theme coming down the pipe soon. Transitional years are uber-cool

jmski52

I really like that coin!

DorkGirl

Very nice.

rhedden

Nice piece. Do you have a matching example of the 1843 with larger reverse letters?

sniocsu

Very beautiful copper.

Walkerguy21D

<< <i>Nice piece. Do you have a matching example of the 1843 with larger reverse letters? >>


I have the 1843, Mature Head, Large Letters reverse, purchased from CVM a while back.
It slabbed a lowly MS62 at our host, and I didn't deem it photo-worthy at this time

JJM

guitarwes

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Meeeee too! Lovely bit 'o green copper there Mr. M. My grade guess was 64BN before I saw the slab grade.

BryceM

I was going to say 64BN. Really, I was!

Nice one.

Walkerguy21D

Thanks all - Since I had it at FUN to get photographed, I also showed it to some of the dealers, first stipulating it was NFS.
They all said it looked undergraded in that holder. So perhaps it may attain gold bean status someday.

guitarwes

Definately try for a gold bean rather than a regrade. I think it has a good shot. Plus you know it's stable since it's been in that Rattler for forever.