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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 2516013, member: 21705&quot;]I am posting this as a cautionary tale when attributing well worn Large Cents. This on had me going for a while:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]535810[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]535812[/ATTACH]</p><p>I imediatly recognized one of my favorite obverses, the Sheldon 1794 Obverse 19 with the horshoe top curl and no lower curl (at least not back towards the date).</p><p><br /></p><p>The lack of a die crack in the date gave me visions of cherry picking the second known NC-10.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lack of a die crack narrowed down the known choices to the NC-10 or one of the two early die states of S-43. I&#039;ll post those reverses here:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]535813[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]535814[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On this worn example, there is little on the reverse to use to distinguish the two. But one of these is the location of the leaves under D. On the NC-10 the outer leaf is past the upright of D and on the S-43 it is at the right edge of the upright of D.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw what I wanted to see. perhaps you do to. I looked and looked, but it was more of an impression than something I could hang my hat on. So I put it on my watch list and came back with a fresh perspective. I enhanced the photos and increase contrasts to expropriate the most information I could from the image. But again all I was left with was an impression.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally this morning, I looked elsewhere for something else to&quot;verify&quot; my find. I came across the differences in the stem to the top berry under D. I think there is enough there to see the difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]535815[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535816[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]535817[/ATTACH]</p><p>Subject&nbsp; S-43 NC-10</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this confirms that the subject coin is an early die state of S-43 and not the NC-10.</p><p><br /></p><p>Disappointing, but I didn&#039;t go crazy BEFORE I bid on the coin this time. I may be slow, but I do learn from my mistakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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