Someone in here once nicely took the time to help me ID the variety of a 1900 $1 Lafayette Early Commemorative. Here's another I'm hoping to get help with. (No, this is not the one I just bought. That new purchase fell in the category of "stupid things I've done", i.e., buying something I already had/bad record keeping sub-division")
Thanks for the response. That was my thought. BUT A 2c is labeled as "rare" in my resource. The difference between the 2c and a more common variety is the stem length on the reverse. And my resource does not show the difference between a short stem and a long stem. What I haven't done is surf the net to see if there are pictures somewhere.
You definitely have a 2C, but the 1B and 2C are the common varieties. The 4E only has a few examples, the 3D is next rarest, followed by the 1A.
Thanks for clarifying that. Since I had previously sold an AU-58 Lafayette that was ID'ed as a 2C I foound it somewhat unlikely that I would have had two rare varieties. But I also couldn't prove I was wrong. Thanks for bring this to a final conclusion for me.
I just went back to my source to see if I mis-remembered the rarity ratings for the varieties. Nope. My source had the following: -- 1-A > Scarce -- 1-B > Most often seen variety -- 1-C > Very rare -- 2-C > Rare -- 3-D > Very rare -- 4-E > Very rare THEN, I said to myself, "Self, look at the publishing data of my source." I think that info indicates the source of my problem. Commemorative Coins of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia by Q. David Bowers, Second Printing 1992 Wasn't much of what Q. David Bowers put in print of questionable authenticity?
