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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scott490, post: 1445639, member: 28740&quot;]I just purchased Al Overton&#039;s book on capped bust halves. The book, while informative, is also not very user-friendly. Inadequate, small pictures and a coding system that seems a bit wonkish, to put it mildly. I&#039;m still trying to understand how to apply the codes. For example, I have an 1810 CBH that&#039;s an O-101a. According to Overton, this is found on page 81 of his book, the first entry under 1810.&nbsp; [ATTACH]178766.vB[/ATTACH]&nbsp; Let&#039;s break down O-101a. The first O is the author&#039;s name, followed by 1 (the obverse) followed by O (stands for obverse I guess) , followed by 1a (reverse A, under #1). Is this correct?&nbsp; I wonder why we wouldn&#039;t just call this coin O-1. It&#039;s listed as the first of 27 varieties of the 1810. Why the extra complexity?&nbsp; Now let&#039;s turn to the 6th variety of the 1810. In the heading we see 2-v2 for the obverse followed by B-v2 for the reverse. Would that be expressed O-2O2b?&nbsp; I know, it&#039;s too nice a day to be writing about this stuff. So I&#039;ll stop now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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