I just found out that Rick has attributed my two 1862 Indian cents! The first one is an 1862 I recently found with a large reverse die gauge shown in the picture below so I gave it to Rick and he felt it was worth of a new variety attribution. It is now a Snow 9. The second 1862 is one I posted a couple months ago in this thread: http://www.cointalk.com/t84370/ Well, I wrote an article for the Fly-In Club's Longacre's Ledger about whether it should be a designated as a new variety and asked the membership to vote and they voted overwhelmingly to have Rick give it a new attribution. It is now a Snow 10. So I'm pretty excited to have my name associated with these two new varieties since they will appear in the next edition of the Fly-In Club's Longacre Ledger, as well as Rick's Attribution Guide whenever it is updated.
Shhh...quiet... She probably has a closet collection of non-toners, don't make her post all of them, it'll crash the site!
Thanks folks, I am quite tickled to have "discovered" these varieties. And, Thad, it's really hard to find toned copper nickel Indian cents since nickel doesn't tone the same as bronze copper does - nickel usually just darkens or dulls over time. However, I do have a couple pretty toned copper nickel pennies that I had to pay a lot for, but to me they are worth it. In any event, I don't JUST collect toned. The criteria I use for my personal collection is that the coin should have either pretty toning, be an interesting variety, or a neat error, or a combination of any of those three things. To me, it makes each coin unique and not like any other. That's what attracts me to a particular coin.
