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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 933316, member: 66&quot;]Penny Whimsy is good, but not the 1990 or later edition.&nbsp; Many people like the 1976 edition but I prefer the 1958 or 1965 editions.&nbsp; Even better is the Noyes book United States Cents 1793 - 1814, or Walter Breen&#039;s Encyclopedia of Early United States Cents 1793 - 1814.&nbsp; The Noyes book is a little better but considerably more expensive. (Noyes is basically Penny Whimsy with better and much larger plates.).&nbsp; Breen&#039;s pictures are not as good as Noyes but there is a lot more information in the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way to get the Noyes book is to buy the set of the early and middle date books at a cost of $250.&nbsp; The Breen book can be found in the $75 to $100 range but it is out of print now and is getting to be more difficult to find.&nbsp; Penny Whimsy is still in print which is keeping the prices for bother the recent and the older editions down.&nbsp; The 1990 editin (Don&#039;t do it.) is $50 and the older editions can be found in the $50 to $75 range.&nbsp; (Befor ethe 1990 edition came out the older editions were reaching the $125 to $150 level.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Other even cheaper way to do attributions are auction catalogs.&nbsp; The Wes Rassmuson sale (Heritage I believe), and the Goldberg sales of the Ted Naftzger and Dan Holmes sales are all superb for large quality images of almost all or in the case of Dan Holmes ALL of the early date varieties.&nbsp; These fall short in that they do not include a description of the die diagnostics.&nbsp; So combine one of those with a copy of either of these Superior Galleries auctions, 1986 Robinson S Brown Sale, or 1989 Jack Robinson Sale.&nbsp; They have all of the Sheldon numbers and most of the NC varieties, every coin pictures with the diagnostics of each listed.&nbsp; The shortcoming of those sales is the photos are as good as the later sales and they are actual size rather than enlarged.&nbsp; You should be able to get a copy of any of these for around $20 or less each.&nbsp; The Naftzger and Holmes collections are viewable online at the Goldbergs website.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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