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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;frech001, post: 2150320, member: 20616&quot;]You have a few more to collect if you want all of the master die or hub varieties that were intentional mint changes made during the two years. </p><p><br /></p><p>A master die or hub is an early step in the coining process best described in Richard Snow&#039;s Attribution Guide and Q. David Bower&#039;s book.&nbsp; Another way of looking at this level of variety is to simply say that these are intentional mint design differences. Other varieties may have been deliberate such as over-dates like the 1858/7 made by an engraver when punching the date unto a working die but not an intentional mint design change.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of the varieties are the result of the economic influences of minting, such as the use of usable working dies and hubs carried over from a previous year (or earlier design from the same year) in combination with the latest design change in the opposing die. This is seen in the 1856 Obverse on the 1857 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the master die or hub varieties (at least those varieties currently attributed is as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>1857 with an obverse of the 1856</p><p><br /></p><p>1857 with an obverse of 1857</p><p><br /></p><p>1858 with large letters (LL), high leaves (HL) and Type 1 Closed E</p><p><br /></p><p>1858 with large letters (LL), low leaves (LL) and Type 2 Close E</p><p><br /></p><p>1858 with large letters (LL), low leaves (LL) and Type 3 Open E</p><p><br /></p><p>1858 with small letters (SL), high leaves (HL) and Type 1 Closed E</p><p><br /></p><p>1858 with small letters (SL), low leaves (LL) and Type 2 Close E</p><p><br /></p><p>1858 with small letters (SL), low leaves (LL) and Type 3 Open E</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are interested in Flying Eagles you may be interested in joining the Flying Eagle and Indian Cent Club called the Fly-In Club. <a href="http://www.fly-inclub.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fly-inclub.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fly-inclub.org/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are several articles in their journal called &quot;Longacre&#039;s Ledger&quot; all archived editions are posted on their club website and their forum is a good place to exchange posts about FEs and IHCs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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