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I went to a coin show today and now I have 3 more coins I can post.

 

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I like you have a 25 next in line.
I will flip you for it.

 

I have '21. The '25 is all yours!

 

I have a 26' it just isn't being photogenic.

 

I do have something dated 1826, a half cent. It is the piece in my NGC registry set, but it's not my best example of the Classic Head half cent design.



Roger Cohen listed this as variety #1. It is interesting because there a corrected die sinking blunder to the right of the "6" in the date. The die maker seems to have entered a "6", realized that it was misplaced and effaced it with a patch of scratches.



This is the more common of the two varieties noted for this year. It is an R-1. NGC graded this MS-64, Brown. It's not quite that nice.

I have a very nice 1825 "something," but I will hold off posting it for a while until someone posts the date.

 

I forget the die pairing for this one. It is a later die stage and an r-5 if I remember correctly.

 

It's not a great coin, but here's the piece I bought for my on again, off again large cent date set. This date gets very expensive, very fast as you go up the grades. I decided that I was not going to pay a fortune to fill the hole.




The 1823 large cent is a semi-key date in the series. Oddly enough, the overdate variety is more common than the normal date. The story was mint had a lot of leftover 1822 large cent dies. They used the previous year's dies, in 1823 and only changed to the new date at the end of the year.

Believe it or not, the dies still exist for the 1823 large cent. They are in the ANA Headquarters Museum in Colorado. Here is a photo they let me take while I was there.




These dies were used to strike the 1823 "Restrike variety" which is pictured and listed in the 2024 Red Book on page 102. They are broken and rusted, but were still good enough to strike some pieces.

 

Took a few pics today sick as hell with cold/flu/rona/etc tried working but was too lightheaded so I got a pic of a 22 to post

 

I can post a '21 in about an hour

 

1821 Capped Bust Dime...





There are a couple of "scratches" that only show up in the photos...can't see them with 5x mag even.

 

Hope you feel better

 

Thanks feel like warm week old garbage

 

stalled

 

Still feel like crap went to the Dr. Influenza b. Fun stuff here's a 19

 

And the 1818 quarter...

 

1817 15 stars a fun variety with a lot of sentimental attachment first early coin I ever had was a 15 stars. Long lost 40+ years ago. No idea what happened to it. Someday I'd like a really nice example I got nothing else as far as I know until at least 1811. Once we get in the single digits and before I think I have almost every date but 1799

 

Waiting for 1807 for my last coin.