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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3703889, member: 66&quot;]Could I?&nbsp; I did.&nbsp; It was pretty much all there was unless you could find reprints of some of the old books from the early 20th century, and you had to have several different books.&nbsp; early American Cents and then the later edition Penny Whimsy were the go to guide until Robbie Brown&#039;s first collection was sold in 1986.&nbsp; Greatest auction catalog for large cents up to that time.&nbsp; Every Sheldon variety, almost half the NC&#039;s, every variety plated with descriptions of the diagnostics, and die stage information.&nbsp; It was a marvel.&nbsp; Only problem, halftone and actual size images.&nbsp; The Jack Robinson sale in 1989 was just about as good.&nbsp; Next was Breen&#039;s book on the early dates.&nbsp; Good descriptions, large images which could have been better, but the book is too big to carry around, and after ten years of editing it still lacks images of four dies because they accidentally duplicated pictures of other varieties.&nbsp; Now the &quot;gold&quot; standard is the Dan Holmes catalog.&nbsp; Every variety, all of the NC&#039;s, many die stages, in large high quality images.&nbsp; And it is also available online where you can enlarge the images even more.&nbsp; Its shortcoming?&nbsp; No diagnostics description of each variety.&nbsp; The ideal combination would be the Holmes images with the Robbie Brown diagnostics.&nbsp; I&#039;ve actually been toying with the idea of creating that very thing for my own use.&nbsp; But I pretty much used Penny Whimsy from 1982 to 2000.&nbsp; I still think it is an excellent book if you get the right editions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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