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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 142653, member: 2972&quot;]Thanks for all the comments, questions, and guesses!</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS graded the coin VF 20.&nbsp; As others have noted, it is an 1810/09, otherwise known as Sheldon 281.</p><p><br /></p><p>My thoughts on the coin are as follows:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin has great color and a nice planchet, which is why I first noticed this coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; For those of you who have tried to acquire a classic head large cent, you know just how hard this is to find.&nbsp; Virtually all of the examples of this coin you see are either dark, corroded, recolored, or all of the above.&nbsp; Even fresh off the presses these coins were of poor quality.&nbsp; This is because during the time that most classic head large cents were made, planchets were being shipped from England (and for a time during the war of 1812, not at all).&nbsp; At the time, the planchets had to make a long sea voyage in the hold of a wooden ship.&nbsp; Not exactly a condusive environment for copper, and as a result the planchets were often corroded even before striking.&nbsp; Finding an unmolested coin with a nice corrosion free planchet is not an easy task.&nbsp; Finding one that has some detail left with nice color and is affordable is even harder yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the coin.... The obverse seemingly has a bit more detail than your normal VF 20, but it does have several significant contact marks.&nbsp; Nothing that would cause it not to be holdered, but I think PCGS chose to net grade it lower because of this.&nbsp; The strike is about average for this coin.&nbsp; IMHO, PCGS may have undergraded this coin.&nbsp; I grade it VF 25+.</p><p><br /></p><p>It took a little over a year to find an example of the classic head large cent for my type set.&nbsp; I hope to collect these by redbook variety eventually, but judging by how long it took to find a single example I liked and could afford, this will take a very long time to accomplish.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have fun...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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