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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bqcoins, post: 1850533, member: 5036&quot;]I went to the monthly show today expecting to pick up some early large cents so I can continue to work on my identification and research skills with the copy of Penny Whimsy. There is a dealer who has been there for the last few months who stocks piles and piles of large cents and hundreds of culls.&nbsp; The way I&#039;ve been figuring it is that if I want to find rare types, R4 and better, the best way to do it is to pick up large cents that can be identified through pick up points and diagnostics that aren&#039;t completely destroyed.&nbsp; So I told him I wanted to look through every low grade he had and select a few to work on my skills.&nbsp; He said, buy more than a few and we&#039;d work a group price.&nbsp; So I went through and sorted and picked out 6 that I thought I could identify, we settled on $100 for the whole group.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward to this afternoon when I picked through them and set them out how I wanted to identify them, in which order I mean, and I started right in on this one, which was 2x2&#039;d as a 179?.&nbsp;&nbsp; The clearish LIBERTY and the average reverse caused me to pick it out in the first place. I also thought that I could make out the top of the curve of what appeared to be a 6.&nbsp; But I thought, thought mind you, that the LIBERTY might be a LIHERTY.&nbsp; I knew from my reading that the LIHERTY was an error, but I couldn&#039;t remember which year it was, 1796 or 1797, so I looked it up and it turns out this it is the 1796, which both the S-103 and the S-104 were LIHERTY errors.&nbsp; Which only served to confirm my thoughts on the 6 I thought I could see.&nbsp; (You cannot make out the 7 and half of the 9 that are visible on the coin in the pictures as it takes angle manipulation to see them as well as with the top of the 6The reverse confirmed this is the S-103 which is either an R-3+ or R-4 depending on where I look. But hey for the price I think I really nailed down a great coin. </p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/Large%20cents/012_zpsf75a6b38.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/Large%20cents/002_zpsaedff822.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/Large%20cents/006_zps30df587e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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