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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 3754124, member: 9270&quot;]D&#039;oh!!!</p><p>Consider this post a &quot;Homer Simpson&quot; moment for me.</p><p><i>It finally occurred to me that I could try to Google the info I wanted instead of bothering others to do what I should have done.</i></p><p>I find it annoying that many people don&#039;t even <b>try </b>to do research <u>before</u> asking the people in here for an answer.</p><p>I almost fell into that category. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Oh, and the answer is at the bottom.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m trying to flesh out my inventory of Braided Hair Large Cents.</p><p>I&#039;ve got Grellman&#039;s book, <i>The Die Varieties of United States Large Cents 1840-1857</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I immediately ran into my first problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Red Book lists an 1839 dated coin in this category (Braided Hair/1839-1857) as well as several 1839 dated coins in the previous category (Matron Head Modified/1835-1839/The&quot;Young Head&quot;).</p><p>The Grellman book, as seen by the title, doesn&#039;t include an 1839 dated coin as part of the Braided Hair Large Cents set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somewhere in the past I had found the description of the 1839 Braided Hair as &quot;Petite Head, Type of 1840&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Bottom Line:</b> Is there a Newcomb Number for the 1839 Braided Hair Large Cent?</p><p>If so, what is it?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ANSWER:</b> N-8</p><p><br /></p><p>From now on I promise to do my own research before asking a question in here. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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