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<p>[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 1491208, member: 24544"]I don't know of an online version of the Sheldon book, sorry. I wanted to point out if you were not aware, large cents are broken down into early (1793-1814), middle (1816-1839), and late (1840-1857). As far as I know no book covers all of these. Dennis Loring wrote a guide to early date books about 15 years ago which is still pretty useful:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.eacs.org/lcctext.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.eacs.org/lcctext.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.eacs.org/lcctext.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I would add that since this was written the Breen Encyclopedia of early cents has come out and it is a fantastic update to Sheldon, Breen was a co-author of Penny Whimsy. It has updated rarity, conditional census, and die state information in addition to renumbering the varieties based on updated variety sequences, i.e. S91 was probably the first 96 liberty cap struck as the reverse is closer to S81 so I believe Breen listed this first while Sheldon listed it last. Lastly, in regard to the above link there have been multiple important collections sold since 1995 with great auction catalogues which I consider a must, Marshall pointed you to a couple but there are many more. One of those is the Husak early dates which does have a PDF available online:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/HNAI_the_Walter_J_Husak_Collection_Aucti.html?id=-UBHYmT672MC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books/about/HNAI_the_Walter_J_Husak_Collection_Aucti.html?id=-UBHYmT672MC" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books/about/HNAI_the_Walter_J_Husak_Collection_Aucti.html?id=-UBHYmT672MC</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If I had to choose one book for each series I would do:</p><p><br /></p><p>Breen - early dates, this may be out of print but you can pick them up from dealers or on ebay for around $80 and it's worth every penny</p><p>Wright's The Cent Book - middle dates, I find this book much easier to use for attribution the Noyes although Noyes is a good reference, again around $80 used and worth the money</p><p>Grellman - late dates, realistically this is the only option as no other reference comes close to completeness or is as easy to use. Rarely seen used and the handful of used copies I have watched on ebay actually sold for more then you can buy them from the author for. </p><p>Copper quotes by Robinson - NECESSARY if you foresee yourself getting involved in large cent as it is the price guide used by all most serious large cent collectors and dealers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, not only will these books maintain their value pretty well, but they will more than pay for themselves in the value gained from the knowledge. The Grellman book alone has paid for itself many times over in cherry picks. T to give just one example an 1851 N40 in vf25 books at $550 while a common 1851 in vf20 books for around $50. So while $350 is a lot to spend on those 4 books I mentioned they will quickly pay for themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Congrats on becoming an addict, I would strongly recommend joining the Early American Copper club as well!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 1491208, member: 24544"]I don't know of an online version of the Sheldon book, sorry. I wanted to point out if you were not aware, large cents are broken down into early (1793-1814), middle (1816-1839), and late (1840-1857). As far as I know no book covers all of these. Dennis Loring wrote a guide to early date books about 15 years ago which is still pretty useful: [url]http://www.eacs.org/lcctext.htm[/url] I would add that since this was written the Breen Encyclopedia of early cents has come out and it is a fantastic update to Sheldon, Breen was a co-author of Penny Whimsy. It has updated rarity, conditional census, and die state information in addition to renumbering the varieties based on updated variety sequences, i.e. S91 was probably the first 96 liberty cap struck as the reverse is closer to S81 so I believe Breen listed this first while Sheldon listed it last. Lastly, in regard to the above link there have been multiple important collections sold since 1995 with great auction catalogues which I consider a must, Marshall pointed you to a couple but there are many more. One of those is the Husak early dates which does have a PDF available online: [url]http://books.google.com/books/about/HNAI_the_Walter_J_Husak_Collection_Aucti.html?id=-UBHYmT672MC[/url] If I had to choose one book for each series I would do: Breen - early dates, this may be out of print but you can pick them up from dealers or on ebay for around $80 and it's worth every penny Wright's The Cent Book - middle dates, I find this book much easier to use for attribution the Noyes although Noyes is a good reference, again around $80 used and worth the money Grellman - late dates, realistically this is the only option as no other reference comes close to completeness or is as easy to use. Rarely seen used and the handful of used copies I have watched on ebay actually sold for more then you can buy them from the author for. Copper quotes by Robinson - NECESSARY if you foresee yourself getting involved in large cent as it is the price guide used by all most serious large cent collectors and dealers. Lastly, not only will these books maintain their value pretty well, but they will more than pay for themselves in the value gained from the knowledge. The Grellman book alone has paid for itself many times over in cherry picks. T to give just one example an 1851 N40 in vf25 books at $550 while a common 1851 in vf20 books for around $50. So while $350 is a lot to spend on those 4 books I mentioned they will quickly pay for themselves. Congrats on becoming an addict, I would strongly recommend joining the Early American Copper club as well!!![/QUOTE]
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