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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 419935, member: 9270&quot;]<b>BACKGROUND</b>:</p><p>I have been working on a type set for a number of years.</p><p>Naturally one of the coins is a Flying Eagle.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/1-1858-LL-AU58.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nice, and satisfactory, but nothing spectacular.</p><p>I continued acquiring other coins for the set.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then I got my <i>Cherrypickers&#039; Guide</i> and saw the DDO listing.</p><p>So I checked mine.</p><p>Here&#039;s what I saw:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Doubling (most obvious on the &quot;UNI&quot;.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/1-1858LL-AU58-ddo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And the other diagnostics.</p><p>Left arrow points to the raised dot.</p><p>Right arrow points to the remnants of the &quot;7&quot;.</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/1-1858LL-AU58-date-arrow.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After having a small cent specialist look at it, I shipped it to NGC for attribution at the current grade.</p><p>It passed the test and is duly attributed&nbsp; at AU-58 (sorry, no pic of the label.)</p><p>So now my $200 coin is a $2000 coin (values approximate.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It appears that there is more than one variety of the 1858/7 FE.</p><p><i>Cherrypickers&#039; Guide</i> doesn&#039;t list both, but Snow&#039;s book does.</p><p>Looks like my coin is an S-7, not an S-1 (I don&#039;t know anything more than that.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now the same dealer (MFD) has it in hand and is checking with a small cent error specialist to fix a value.</p><p>I don&#039;t generally collect error coins; the exceptions are some of the well known errors.</p><p>So I&#039;m looking to sell/trade this coin for:</p><p>- at a minimum, a replacement FE in MS-64(?)</p><p>- in addition trading up to a better 1860-64 IHC, possibly a MS-64(?) (my current one is a 1862 XF-45)</p><p>- in addition, cash(?)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m out of my league with this, so I&#039;ll depend on MFD to do me right.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All this may happen at the Hagerstown, MD, show this weekend.</p><p>There should be an update Saturday afternoon.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Oh, and MFD stands for &quot;My Favorite Dealer&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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