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Message:: [QUOTE="lkeigwin, post: 1155784, member: 30400"]Looks to be an N.1 variety (R1), Animosity. It's a little hard to attribute the more worn large cents because often the diagnostics are missing. Denticles, the inner circle, die cracks and chips are weak or gone completely. But you can still judge leaf positions, lettering, star orientation, etc. Two or three years ago I got really interested in them and decided to build a set, raw, at around the XF grade. It is such a pleasure to finally be able to hold old coins, not slabs, in hand. These old cents are heavy and have great stories behind them. I quickly found I could obtain AU examples of the late dates but I'd be lucky to find and afford even A3 grades for the early ones, like the 1793 Chain cent, Liberty Cap and Wreath cents. 1799 and 1804 are also very pricey. So I adjusted my goals. I'm still missing four coins but there's plenty of time. The Dansco album weighs about seven pounds! Here's a 1794 Liberty Cap, "head of 1795". It's one of the few I didn't crack out of its slab because you never know if they'll get back in. PCGS graded it F12. The die pair is typically weak on the right side and strong on the left.Lance. [ATTACH]119717.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]119718.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]