1830 Large Cent-Medium Letters or Large Letters??
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Is this the Medium Letters or Large Letters cent? To me, it matches the Medium Letters, but my eyes aren't as good as they used to be. LOL!
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Refer to your second post!
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Definitely the Large Letters variety.
Most likely N10.
Yes.
I vote for Large letters based on the shape and length of the bottoms of the letters
Also the (crossbar?) of the A in states looks like it sags in the medium variety. The upper serif on the last S of states slants in on the medium and appears strait on the large.
And finally, the last S of states is farther from the rim on the large, and closer on the medium.
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I'd say ML because of the middle serif of the F. For LL it looks to be more curved, whereas in ML the serif is more like a straight line.
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Interesting point, so I re-analyzed the letters and found the middle serif of the F to go higher on the LL and was more stubby on the ML.
Also I think the easiest diagnostics are the last S of states distance from denticles Far on the LL, Close on the ML.
I am not familiar with this variety and am basing all my statements on my own visual analysis with coinfacts images, as I perceive it.
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Definitely Large Letters. If I remember, only N-6 has the Medium Letters which requires the top of the D to be near level with the Leaf Tip and the top of the E is level with the S. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Jim
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Hmmm... I've always just gone by the coinfacts website... I draw a straight line up from the last leaf. A Large Letters runs into the "S" in States, a Medium Letters has the "S" completely to the left of the line: Based on this, I'm seeing Medium Letters...
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You’re not wrong, Jim.
N6 is the only Medium Letters variety of the 10 varieties of 1830 large cents.
I didn’t check the leaf tip relative to the D, as the E and S is pretty obvious, so I stopped there, but that is another reliable marker.
Wow I never noticed that
Except I just re-checked coinfacts and there are two different S positions for large letters attributed there. N1 and N8 show behind the Leaf for LL, all others seems to be centered on leaf. Unless they are incorrectly attributed
I am confused at this point.
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...and now I'm officially confused as well. This was one reason I found Redbook varieties of Middle Dates to be "challenging"...
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