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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RBBDoughty, post: 2193488, member: 73447&quot;]There are 1220 varieties in the database, so that is a question that is not easily answered. In theory, all die varieties should command at the least a very small premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>The overdates are the most desired of the FEC and IHC series. The off-centered and multi-denominational clashes are very desirable, too. All of the Top Varieties listed on the site are also very enticing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, price is a factor of condition, rarity, and demand. The <a href="http://indianvarieties.com/cents/1897-indian-head-penny/1897-mpd-001/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://indianvarieties.com/cents/1897-indian-head-penny/1897-mpd-001/" rel="nofollow">1897 MPD with a 1 in the neck</a> is one of the most desired varieties, but it is very common so it can be found with little premium and easily picked by someone who is patient.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most desired doubled die, on the other hand, is probably the <a href="http://indianvarieties.com/cents/1873-indian-head-penny/1873-ddo-001/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://indianvarieties.com/cents/1873-indian-head-penny/1873-ddo-001/" rel="nofollow">1873 DDO-001</a>. It is much more rare, and is alluring to those who collect outside of the IHC series, so it commands a huge premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bisecting die cracks have received relatively little attention in the IHC series, compared to other series such as seated dimes, so I expect those to garner more interest in the future as we document them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, we are picking up on CUDs where Marvin and Margolis left off... at least in the IHC and FEC series. Cuds have always commanded a premium, but to my knowledge no one has attempted to catalogue all of them recently. A well developed CUD listing may spur more interest in those varieties and help provide a method to the madness.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for rusted dies, these should be stupendously desirable - but they are so rare and so few found, it would be hard to say where the market is on them right now. Probably very immature.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wider the repunched date, the further in the field the misplaced date, the larger the cud, the larger the die rust - the more extreme a variety is the more desirable it will be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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