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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 142323, member: 66&quot;]Most EACers store their coins in 2X2 envelopes with cotton liners.</p><p>There are several good books&nbsp; For the early dates Sheldon&#039;s Penny Whimsey is excellent.&nbsp; The Noyes Book on the early dates is also excellent but it should be, much of the text was lifted from Sheldon.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the middle dates&nbsp; I would recommend The Cent Book by John Wright but Noyes book on the middle dates is also quite good.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the late dates you want United States Large Cents 1840 - 1857 by Robert Grellman.</p><p><br /></p><p>For attribution guides I would recommend the same books with a few warnings.&nbsp; You say your Penny Whimsey is hard to use.&nbsp; My bet is you have a 1990 edition.&nbsp; I&#039;m afraid that edition is a piece of junk.&nbsp; The text in PW is almost identical in all of the editions but the plates vary greatly&nbsp; My favorites are the 1958 or 65 editions.&nbsp; The plates are clear and detailed.&nbsp; Although a lot of people like the 1976 edition I find the plates to be overexposed, burned out and too light.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know enough about the 81 edition to comment on it.&nbsp; But the 1990 edition has the plates way underexposed and they tend to look like featureless black circles.&nbsp; Especially on the plates of the NC varieties discovered since 1958.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Newcomb book can be used for the middle dates but it isn&#039;t the easiest to use,&nbsp; For the late dates it is completely useless.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another good attribution guide for 1816 - 1834 is a Guide by Rod Burress.&nbsp; It should still be available from him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something else I would recommend if you can find it would be to locate a copy of the Sept 1986 Superior auction of the Robinson S Brown collection and/or the 1989 sale of the Jack Robinson collection.&nbsp; (I referr to my copies constantly.&nbsp; So much that they are falling apart into individual pages.&nbsp; I have two back up copies of each for when they finally wear out completely, plus I have the hardbound copies of both.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There are other books I could recomend but they are basicly earlier references of the varieties and are mainly interesting&nbsp; as a historical item.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would also agree that if you are serious about large cents, a membership in EAC is reccommended.&nbsp; And if they ever get around to it, they are supposed to eventually be supplying to the membership a CD of the entire set of back issues of the clubs journal Penny-Wise.&nbsp; Almost fourty years worth of articles, 12,000 pages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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