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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 606403, member: 66&quot;]In the world of early copper there are thinps known as electrotypes.&nbsp; In the 19th century when photography was in its infancy, variety collectors would sometimes use an electrotype to fill a hole for a vary rare piece, or sometimes elecrotypes would be made of new discoveries or particularly rare varieties and be distributed amoung other variety collectors so that they had something they could use as an attribution tool to try and find a real one for their own collections.&nbsp; These old electrotypes are highly collectible today in their own right and when sold often even come with pedigrees.&nbsp; An electrotype set of the 1840&#039;s proof half cents sold in the EAC sale this year at $300 apiece.&nbsp; (Which tells me that&nbsp; probably won&#039;t be able to finish the set.&nbsp; I curently have the 1842, 43, and 45 electrotype half cents.&nbsp; But if I can run across them at decent prices I would probably still try to get closer to completing the set.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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