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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4366116, member: 66&quot;]Take your copy of Wright, open to any of the images showing the coin and describing the dies.&nbsp; See that big number between the obv and rev images, that is the Newcomb number for that variety.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103325[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also note in the upper outside corner you have the last two digits of the date and then the Newcomb number.&nbsp; Make it easy to find a particular variety when you are flipping through the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the early years when John was working on the book he did have his own numbering system but by the time it was published it was back to the Newcomb numbers and in the same sequence as Newcomb.</p><p><br /></p><p>The books by Bill Noyes are good but pricy.&nbsp; He has done six books, three of which are pictured in Jack Young&#039;s post.&nbsp; He also did on on the middle dates United States Large Cents 1816 - 1839.&nbsp; And two more that cover the middle and late dates United States Large Cents 1816 - 1836, and United States Large Cents 1837 - 1857.&nbsp; You cna sometimes find the 1816 - 39 book by itself,&nbsp; The 1793-1814 book is only sold in conjunction with the middle date book and it will run around $250 for the pair.&nbsp; The 1793-94 and 1795-97 books are his condition census books.&nbsp; They list the top ten to 20 known pieces of each variety.&nbsp; If you are looking to IDENTIFY the varieties those two books are not what you are looking for..&nbsp; I have not examined the 1816-36 and 1837-57 books but I would suppose they are along the lines of his early and middle date book.&nbsp; Once again this is a case of you have to buy both books.&nbsp; Especially since he broke the middle date series between the two books.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the early dates both Sheldon and Breen are excellent.&nbsp; Sheldon is easier to carry but the larger images makes Breen easier to use.&nbsp; The historical background information n Breen is also great.&nbsp; If you get a copy of Sheldon I would recommend an earlier edition.&nbsp; The 1990 edition is the most available but it has the poorest images, especially the first printing.&nbsp; My personal favorite would be either the 1958 or 1965 edition.&nbsp; This s too bad as the 1990 editions have pictures of all the NC varieties discovered since 1958.&nbsp; Unfortunately they tend to be rendered as black circles.&nbsp; Another shortcoming of breen is that four of the varieties are not pictured, they erred and print images of other varieties on the description pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can get your hands on them I would also recommend getting copies of the Dan Holmes I and II sale catalogs.&nbsp; Unfortunately not variety descriptions but fabulous images and every early and middle date variety is included.&nbsp; An excellent tool used in conjunction with Sheldon, Breen, Wright, or Noyes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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