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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 256223, member: 9270&quot;]<font face="Courier New">I’m putting together a typeset of US coins.</font></p><p><font face="Courier New">Well actually it’s a subset of a typeset since the early issues are too pricy for me.</font></p><p><font face="Courier New">When it came to Large Cents in the 1816 to 1857 range I thought there were only <u>two</u> types, Coronet and Braided Hair (or Matron Head and Young Head.)</font></p><p><font face="Courier New">But after looking at what I‘ve got versus the pictures in various catalogs I now think there’s <u>three</u> types.</font></p><p><font face="Courier New">And what’s worse the various catalogs don’t agree.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Courier New">Here’s my coin which I thought represented the earlier Coronet (or Matron Head) type:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Courier New"><span style="color: black"><font face="Courier New">&lt;a href=&quot;http://</font></span>mywebpages.comcast.net/dcderoo/<span style="color: red">1-1838-AU58</span>.jpg<span style="color: black"><font face="Courier New">&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://</font></span>mywebpages.comcast.net/dcderoo/<span style="color: red">1-1838-AU58-25</span>.jpg<span style="color: black"><font face="Courier New">&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Click To Enlarge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</font></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Courier New">BUT it doesn’t look like the pictures of the Coronet (or Matron Head) type.</font></p><p><font face="Courier New">It looks more like the Braided Hair (Young Head) type.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Courier New">It seems that 1837 to 1839 was a crossover period.</font></p><p><font face="Courier New">Is this correct?</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Courier New">If so, then I have to get one of the earlier coins (1816-1837.)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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