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<p>[QUOTE="Omegaraptor, post: 3187808, member: 76105"]<a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/NO-DATE-DRAPED-BUST-LARGE-CENT-1C-6464/372434599952?hash=item56b6d50010:g:GCIAAOSwMudbmUrF:sc:USPSFirstClass!08054!US!-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/NO-DATE-DRAPED-BUST-LARGE-CENT-1C-6464/372434599952?hash=item56b6d50010:g:GCIAAOSwMudbmUrF:sc:USPSFirstClass!08054!US!-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/NO-DATE-DRAPED-BUST-LARGE-CENT-1C-6464/372434599952?hash=item56b6d50010:g:GCIAAOSwMudbmUrF:sc:USPSFirstClass!08054!US!-1</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/GCIAAOSwMudbmUrF/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/DtsAAOSwij5bmUrJ/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dateless 1801 3 errors LC, $15 BIN. </p><p><br /></p><p>For those of you not into EACs, there are two varieties of 1801 3 errors large cents. There is the rare S-218 and the common S-219. The S-218 has LIBERTY shifted over one space from the 219.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first looked at the reverse I immediately tried to make out LIBERTY. I thought I was seeing traces of LIBERTY shifted over and I got extremely excited. Then I looked at the legible reverse area again and saw that there was a die crack going through IINITED - a characteristic of a later state 219. 218 NEVER has this die crack.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cdateless%E2%80%9D-seated-dime-possibly-1853-no-arrows.315197/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cdateless%E2%80%9D-seated-dime-possibly-1853-no-arrows.315197/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/“dateless”-seated-dime-possibly-1853-no-arrows.315197/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This brings me back to an earlier thread I made. I thought one crummy seated dime I owned was an 1853 No Arrows - until I actually did a photo overlay and neither of the two obverses matched. [USER=36230]@BooksB4Coins[/USER] made a very good point here - these "amazing finds" seem to always occur on low grade coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Although it's not impossible, the odds that you are convincing yourself to see what you want to see is much higher. Start from the most common possible coin and work towards the rarest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Omegaraptor, post: 3187808, member: 76105"][url]https://www.ebay.com/itm/NO-DATE-DRAPED-BUST-LARGE-CENT-1C-6464/372434599952?hash=item56b6d50010:g:GCIAAOSwMudbmUrF:sc:USPSFirstClass!08054!US!-1[/url] [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/GCIAAOSwMudbmUrF/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/DtsAAOSwij5bmUrJ/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] Dateless 1801 3 errors LC, $15 BIN. For those of you not into EACs, there are two varieties of 1801 3 errors large cents. There is the rare S-218 and the common S-219. The S-218 has LIBERTY shifted over one space from the 219. When I first looked at the reverse I immediately tried to make out LIBERTY. I thought I was seeing traces of LIBERTY shifted over and I got extremely excited. Then I looked at the legible reverse area again and saw that there was a die crack going through IINITED - a characteristic of a later state 219. 218 NEVER has this die crack. [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cdateless%E2%80%9D-seated-dime-possibly-1853-no-arrows.315197/[/url] This brings me back to an earlier thread I made. I thought one crummy seated dime I owned was an 1853 No Arrows - until I actually did a photo overlay and neither of the two obverses matched. [USER=36230]@BooksB4Coins[/USER] made a very good point here - these "amazing finds" seem to always occur on low grade coins. Although it's not impossible, the odds that you are convincing yourself to see what you want to see is much higher. Start from the most common possible coin and work towards the rarest.[/QUOTE]
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