1798 Large Cent attribution help please

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• STONE Posts: 15,275 ✭

  October 19, 2008 1:35AM

  Could be S-165, but I only took a quick look.

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• TheRegulator Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭

  October 19, 2008 2:52AM

  I'm thinking S-165, too. Type II hair and Large 8. Missing the reverse arc crack and the leaves below T of CENT look to be free. If not a S-165, then it would be S-166.
  
  I've only really got Penny Whimsy and the RSB1 catalog for attribution, so hopefully some others chime in...

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• joecopper Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭

  October 19, 2008 6:16AM

  I think it is 165 due to Large 8, Style II hair, and placement of leaves below T in cent. Also the Y in Liberty appears to be wide and low.
  

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• lathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭

  October 19, 2008 6:27AM

  Really need to get better scans if you want it correctly attributed.
  
  Ray

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• MisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

  October 19, 2008 7:09AM

  It must be Sheldon's "Group 5" with large 8's and Style 2 hair,
  which would make it either 165, 166, or 167. Since it doesn't
  have the arc crack seen on 166, that would leave two. I'm
  thinking S-167 because of what looks like the vertical crack
  through the final "8" in the date, but I could be wrong, it may
  be 165. Between the pictures and the wear, it's kind of hard
  to tell.
  
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  (edited for spelling)

  
  "America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

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• intocoins Posts: 602 ✭

  October 19, 2008 9:19AM

  The left side of the T in UNITED is irregular. I'm leaning towards S-165.
  
  

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• agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭

  October 19, 2008 9:37AM

  The left side of the T in UNITED is irregular. I'm leaning towards S-165
  It doesn't look the same as this.
  

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