1798 LARGE CENT, WHAT VARIETY?

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  1. coins776

    coins776 no title

    9c.jpg 9d.jpg 9e.jpg i would say S-184. any opinions?
     
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  3. non_cents

    non_cents Well-Known Member

    Where do you get these coins from? They are pretty darn mangled, which I feel will definitely take away from value one way or another... :( (sorry, can't help with attribution on this one.)
     
  4. mark_h

    mark_h Somewhere over the rainbow

    Not a clue - you will have to wait for Marshall or conder.
     
  5. Marshall

    Marshall Junior Member

    Style II Hair and none of the Group 5 with Large 8s (A single Obverse) match the reverse location of the leaf at M so it has to be Group Six with style II hair and small 8s.

    The Sheldon Reverse EE seems clear with the leaf tip at the midpoint of M and top leaf centered under S. The obverse marker I normally use (SHWH) to distinguish obverses 31, 32 and 33 is obscured. While difficult and certainly not without a doubt, the spacing of the date with minutely more distant 1 and minutely lower 9 seems to confirm the S-184.
     
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  6. dave4dawg

    dave4dawg Member

    The "low 9" obverse is common to two varieties, the s-184 and s-185. So one has to look at the reverses, which in most cases are slam-dunk diagnostics, However, in this case, without being readily able to see the reverse diecutters scratch from A through the right ribbon, (the s-184), and the reverse and the fraction which are easy diagnostics. - ya have to look at the berries and wreath stem points. The left and right wreath stem-points in relation to the "U" in UNITED and final "A" in AMERICA, and the shape of the outside berry/stem opposite the "D" in UNITED. The attributes are all rather clear enough to point to the S-184 as the variety. I would agree with Marshall.
     
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