DAMAGED LARGE CENT, WHAT VARIETY?

1850 large cent, what variety?

 

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You seem to post a lot of large cents for attribution...have you considered purchasimng a book of large cent doe varieties so you can learn how to self-attribute? (It also may benefit you in the future if you see a rare die labeled as a common coin.) It may be a good investment.

 

Larry were are ya??
I think its a re-punched date .
I to on large cents half and whole need a book to look it up. One thing coin club memberships helps.
Be sides a night out */*

 

Date position looks like n21.

 

here is an 1800/79 overdate large cent that i attributed today, i often times do this with coins that are being offered for sale online. this coin is variety S-196 which is an R-1 very common variety.even if this coin would have turned out to be a rare variety, i would not be able to buy the coin because it is way out of my price range, which is almost always the case. for a while now i have been using these websites for reference. http://www.largecents.net/collection/photoindex.html
http://www.goldbergcoins.com/
http://www.coinfacts.com/large_cent...794_large_cents/1794_large_cent_varieties.htm
and there are other websites that i use as well. goldberg auctions archives catalogs are a great source for large cents reference.

 

i have never had a night out or anything similar. i live alone and i only leave the house when i have to do laundry, grocery shopping and similar chores.

 

i thought that maybe it could be n-20 or n-26, but i think that you are right about the coin being n-21. thanks for the reply.

 

here is another one, this coin is an 1801 large cent variety S-219 which is an R-2 common variety.

 

Nope, on n20 and n26 the 5 is separate from the curl above, n21 has the 5 touching.

 

here is another coin that i saw being offered for auction online yesterday, the seller ended the auction early today for this coin. maybe he thought that this coin is the rare 1801 variety NC-4, but it is not. this coin is 1801 variety N-224 which is an R-1 very common variety.

 

Early date, and to some extent middle dates, can be attributed reasonable well with the comprehensive catalogues. Late dates on the other hand require the book. While there are some varieties like this 50n21 which can be done on date alone, most can not be.

One additional benefit of the early books is there grouping of variety and die marriage/ emission sequence info. This stuff makes learning the varieties much easier as oppose to looking every coin up.

 

The 1801 is an s222, the position of the leaf under E in states is not right for 224. No idea why it was ended, it looks nothing like any nc for the year.

 

this one looks like n-7. a very common variety.

 

does the die state on this 1 837 large cent have any added premium?

 

Good for you, sir.


In case you are unaware, here is another free online reference that may be of help to you.

http://www.pcgs.com/books/earlycents/

 

1801 variety S-216 which is an R-1 very common variety.