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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 21031, member: 57463&quot;]You are right about the 3-cent &quot;fish scales&quot;, ND.&nbsp; Both silver and nickel are cute little coins, but no one seems interested.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Another over-developed area is Large Cents.&nbsp; Of course, it is just those coins that make the headlines when another uncatalogued variety or rare example is tagged at an ANA convention by an observant numismatist.&nbsp; Recently in the news is the &quot;Strawberry Leaf&quot; large cent.&nbsp; I would have to double-check the details, but it is legendary that Henry Chapman and Eduoard Frossard got into a wrestling match, tussling each other to the ground at the Parmalee Auction over just that coin, the Strawberry Leaft large cent.&nbsp; I am pretty sure that was before 1920, because the Chapman Brothers were young turks in 1880 and they both worked for Frossard before going out on their own. So, people have been chasing these coins for a while.&nbsp; I have never seen any &quot;edition&quot; of the standard Newcombe reference on Large Cents that was not a reproduction of the hand-engraved book.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are bargains out there, but your knowledge of Large Cents has to be 150 years deep.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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