My love of Indian head cents!!

I am just confessing my love to the humble Indian head cent.They have a nice design and they are affordable. Who here agrees with me.

 

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OH I sure wish I knew someone likes those. I just took a bag of hundreds of them to a bank.
And if you believe that, I can sell you a portion of the Empire State Building.
In reality those are one of the more popular coins. You could usually always tell about popularity of any coin by the prices posted on the probably thousands of coin price guides. Slight exageration.
I am on my 4th set of those. Really kind of tuff getting the Flying Eagle 1856 for all those sets though.

 

Affordable to some extent...Of course, with most coins, as you get higher into the grades, you have really really expensive coins, sometimes 6 or 7 digits!
The Indian Cent is a beautiful design though, that is for sure!

 

Yep - there are a few of us that do so like them. And personally I like the flying eagles, but do not consider them needed for the set - especially the 1856. I think they just tossed them in the book so they did not have to do something separate. I have one complete set and will eventually finish the other two sets I am working on. And yes the design is nice. Plus I really only like the dark RB and lusterous browns first - to me the reds come in dead last.

 

I'm a fan I guess :thumb:

 

Yes - and you should probably post the link to your 1908-S grading set.

 

http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=770

It's also linked in my signature line here, but I guess not everyone has their preferences set up to view signature lines in the posts.

I'm having that set professionally imaged in a few weeks so I'm looking forward to that!!! Will hopefully be able to not only update the photos in the online Registry, but also make a poster or something out of the set that I can hang in my office :thumb:

 

Illini420, I don't like to hijack strings, but CoinTalk doesn't have its own Numismatic Photography section

Do you take your own photos? If so, which type of bulb do you use? I use GE PAR30 floods and can never seem to caputre the rainbow toning, especially on slabbed coins. Can you offer any tips?

Thanks in advance!
-LTB

 

I take most of my own photos, but not all of them in my sets are my pics as I've has some professionally imaged and others were images from the seller of the coin where I thought the photo was already as good or better than I could do. This 1908-S MS66RB was one that I took though. I just have a $300 or so Nikon coolpix, nothing fancy and I just use a small halogen desklamp and another small desklamp with a cheapo 60 watt bulb in it (that's my lighting set up because that's what I have on my desk!!). The key to getting good shots I think is to use a tripod or copy stand on your camera and to use the camera's timer so there is no movement from you pressing the button. As far as the colors coming out, not sure how to really do it as that is just the way this coin looks (though I did have to take several shots before I got one that looked acceptable, but even then there is still glare on the indian's face that I couldn't seem to avoid). I also sometimes open the photos I take in Microsoft Office Picture Manager which comes with Office in order to "autocorrect" my image if they don't come out ok. Here is the teletrade photos from when I bought it for comparison, it's just an amazing looking Indian Cent:

 

Man Illini.... can I buy a portrait of that for my living room? Damn!!

 

Here is a couple for the IHC fans:



This was Charmy's she can chime in if she still has it.

 

Oops - I see your sig line, but I just tend to forget about them.

 

That's fantastic; your shots truly amazing!

-LTB

 

Indian head cents are my cup of tea too. Aside from a full collection of Indians, I mainly collect Indian cent errors. Some of my favorite errors are in lower grades - I appreciate the higher grade ones, but I have something for the lower grade ones too. I have an 1865 that is 40% off center that is in VG-10. I also have an 1859 that has a rotated reverse of 90 degrees in AG-3. How many people noticed as it changed hands? A penny must have been worth something back then if these coins were in circulation for as long as they were. They've got some serious history. I have two 1908-S indian cents with laminations, but they seem pretty common on those planchets that San Francisco used that first year. I just picked up a 1908-S with some gold-colored metal struck through on the obverse, very excited about that one. I only need 18 more Indian dates in errors and I have the whole collection. I would classify about 6 of those as easy dates, but will be close to impossible. I've only seen one 1877 Indian error and it was a rim clip (and hardly worth the seller's asking price). It would be boring if it wasn't so interesting ...

 

Had all of my 1908-S IHCs imaged by BluCC photo at the Long Beach show... here's a shot of how the 66RB pictured above came out... very nice (and this pic is about 1/5 size of the full size images).

 

I almost bought that metal struck in example from Eagle Eye when it was listed for $500 I think on his website. I also viewed it during lot viewing at Long Beach and put in an initial bid of $200 so that it would show up in my active bidding lot list (even though I knew a standard AU58 is valued in the $250-$350 range). In looking at the closing price on that lot, I bet you're happy I decided not to bid any further on it It was a cool looking coin, but I just decided at the last minute that I really wanted to go after some other coins instead. Congrats and glad a forum member won that and was able to win it at a great price :thumb:

 

I'm just learning how to image copper. Nice coins everyone.

 

Nice looking coins...I need to get me some of them

 

I had not really gone after the IHC yet. Been concentrating on other sets first. I have been thinking about picking some up as they look fairly affordable and easy to get. Anybody know of a good source to get some from on this forum?

 

This just brought to mind the old Whitman Folders which had a cardboard circle which could be removed for the 1856 IF you chose to do so, but did not create a hole if you chose not to consider it as part of the set.