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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gronnh20, post: 2999210, member: 73224&quot;]We had a coin show today sponsored by the local coin club.&nbsp; Dealers were really sparse.&nbsp; I would say about half of what would usually attend the show to sell.&nbsp; Since, this thread was brought to my attention, I went on the hunt for an 1852 large cent at the show.&nbsp; Large cents not encapsulated were also sparse.&nbsp; Okay, encapsulated ones were also slim pickings.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the local dealers has quite a few raw coins.&nbsp; He is overpriced.&nbsp; He had an 1852 in his case.&nbsp; I went on to look at other offerings.&nbsp; I came back to him last as I was leaving out the door.&nbsp; I asked to look at the large cent.&nbsp; 1852 has 22 die pairings with three varieties that are sort of rare.&nbsp; N-13(R3), N-16(R2), and N-22(R3).&nbsp; N-13 is an easy die pair to remember.&nbsp; There is only one other die pair that even closely resembles N-13.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much to my amazement the only 1852 he had, attributed out to N-13.&nbsp; The coin looks low VF and has been cleaned.&nbsp; I talked to the dealer about the attribution of large cents.&nbsp; He told me he doesn&#039;t attribute them after the mid 40&#039;s.&nbsp; Lucky for me I was able to mark one of the rarer varieties off my list.&nbsp; If the coin had been a more common die pairing then I would have passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]741635[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]741636[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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