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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1845911, member: 24544&quot;]Very cool coin, and very nice example of an unmolested early cent.&nbsp; Even toning with no major distracting marks.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s actually pretty hard to find coins of this quality in these grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an N9 not an N2.&nbsp; The biggest indicator is the date position.&nbsp; You just bought grellman, here&#039;s how I use it.&nbsp; I look at the coin and try to figure out the first four numbers of the DRN, I find the last two numbers to be pretty useless and in fact I think the description for the last DRN number is backwards from how its actually used.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I would look at this and say it&#039;s 4844.&nbsp; I believe all the other 1849s with reverse die crumbling have DRNs around 1444, so this coin can&#039;t be an N1, N2, N3, or N5.&nbsp; If you look at the DRN list for 1849 there is no coin with 4844 but the N9 and N27 both have 4845 which is close enough and I would start with those two varieties.&nbsp; Once you look at the N9 you will confirm it&#039;s the variety, the bottom of the date is weak, and the crumbling is correct, looks around die state c or early d.&nbsp; I see some crumbling in the N in ONE but it&#039;s not as complete as it gets in later die states.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grellman lists this as R4 but there is not a large price premium for the variety in this grade.&nbsp; I would put it around a 30 with no deductions, maybe a 25, an above average coin for sure, and worth more than you paid to the right collector<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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