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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8001659, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;ve had several white whales over the years.&nbsp; 1802 S-226 large cent.&nbsp; It&#039;s supposed to be about the most common of the 1802&#039;s.&nbsp; I was the last variety I needed for by set and I spent three years trying to find one.&nbsp; Found several of the 238 and 240&#039;s which are the rarest of the 1802&#039;s but could never find the 226.Finally after three years one turned up in an auction and I was ready to go to three times catalog to get it.&nbsp; Got it for 1.5X.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>1796 S-113 was another one.&nbsp; Now that is a rare one, not super rare, and I didn&#039;t expect to cherry it, but over a 7 year period it just would not show up even in sales of fairly extensive large cent collections.&nbsp; Most of the 96 draped busts would be there including the rare ones but it would always be 111, 112, 114, 115....&nbsp; Finally got one at a sale about 3 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my Conder tokens, the last piece I needed for Essex county was D&amp;H 3.&nbsp; Now it&#039;s supposed to be rare, about an R-5, but it did tend to show up in lists from specialist dealers. Over a 5 years period I must have purchased at least half a dozen D&amp;H 3&#039;s, every single one of them turned out to be misattributed D&amp;H 4&#039;s.&nbsp; then one day at a show a very nice one turned up unattributed in a non-specialist dealers stock[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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