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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1447510, member: 24544&quot;]Pricing is affected by what you like.&nbsp; In this particular case the variety tends to have a weak date in addition to TY in liberty, and a weak ST in States, it&#039;s a function of the die and the alignment during the strike.&nbsp; It&#039;s an important thing to remember in grading large cents, amount of&nbsp; detail is not always a good indication of amount of wear due to big&nbsp; differences in die preparation and die alignment during strike.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Welcome to the world of early copper and what attracts many people to them, they were not a standard, uniform product like we get from the mint now.&nbsp; They represent a much different time during the birth of a young government trying it&#039;s best survive and assert it&#039;s authority, at a time when it was not certain it would survive.&nbsp; Even at the time these coins were minted the general lack of quality and consistency was noted and pressure was applied to try to close the mint.&nbsp; Personally, I really enjoy this series because the large variance in quality of a government issued product stands in stark contrast to our present day.&nbsp; Can you imagine if the mint produced a coin today with the fraction 1/000 on it or how about abbreviating the name of the country as &#039;United States of &#039;Ameri.&#039;, did someone misplace their only C punch after they punched &#039;CENT&#039;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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