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Message:: [QUOTE="Bill in Burl, post: 1236021, member: 23692"]Victoria large cents are almost entirely graded from the obverse(portrait) side, with little attention to the Reverse side, except for marks/dings.  Conversely, almost all the collectible 1859 varieties deal with the numerals in the date and the spacing/alignment.  Yours is not a magnified or clear enough photo for me to tell which variety (if known) it actually is.  Since the number 9 was hand-punched into each working die and it took 2-4 strikes of the hammer on the punch to complete the working die, there are as many "varieties" as there were dies used .. nearly 500 I'd guess.  Yours appears to be a normal narrow 9, with the final digit "close".  With the narow gap between the 5 & 9, it is possible that you will have evidence of a repunched 9 of some sort, but it's hard to tell.  From the size of the gaps at leafs 2 and 7, it was late in the production run.  Based upon the wear of the reverse, I'd say it is no better than VF-20, and probably F-12.  BTW, I helped write the Victoria Large Cent Variety guide in the 2011 Charlton.  If you have that edition, keep it, since they rotate denominations every year and Vickies won't show up again for 6-7 years.  That 80 page section was well-researched and documented by 4-5 real experts(collectors) in the field.  All of the photos are from our collections.[/QUOTE]