The Best Indian Head Cent Collection I've Seen

The 1877 looks genuine to me. Look at the "N" in ONE. It's weak, as it should be. Also, I think the grade on it is closer to VF than F. I'm not a fan of the color of the two keys, and I personally wouldn't buy them, not that I was asked to.

I've told this story many times in print, but I think it's interesting. My mother-in-law asked me to look at a coin collection one of her friends had inherited when her husband died. There were about 10 coins in the "collection," all but one spenders. The good coin was an 1877 cent in maybe G-VG condition. What happened to the rest of the set? I gave the woman the wholesale value for the coin, which was $90, I think. This was many years ago.

 

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This bugs me too. In my Lincoln set there is a hole for the 22 No D. But no other varieties. And it isn’t even a variety, really, just a worn die that lost the “D”. I don’t collect varieties so I am stuck with an empty hole I don’t want, don’t agree with having there, and will never fill. It’s an unwanted reproach on a complete set.

Best of luck on the three key IHC’s. I kinda think the estimate you gave is conservative if those received some competitive bidding. Prices have been running hotter lately.

 

Do you still have it? Its probably worth about five times what you bought it for by now...

Here are some better pictures of the 1877 IHC. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gtg-1877-indian-head-cent.381969/

 

It means they are good...

 

I've been collecting for over 60 years, as I did in my career, I researched and read everything I could find associated with achieving my goals. I purchased all 30 years of issues of Longacre's Ledger, (the official publication of the FLYING EAGLE AND INDIAN CENT COLLECTORS SOCIETY www.fly-inclub.org I scanned them all to pdf so I could search them and gave the digital files to the club for posting on their website. I bought all the books I could find on these coins to identify all the deliberate changes by the mint. I wasn't interested in collecting mistakes, which most varieties are, but rather changes the mint intended and released into circulation. Thus I wasn't interested in the 1856, Flying Eagle, which was essentially a pattern. And, I wanted circulated coins that were actually in people's pockets, part of our history. My research corresponds with Richard Snow's suggested deliberate mint design changes, with one exception, the 1909 Large L over small L, which was a design switch to a Larger L the last year of Longacre's design, when some of the dies from the previous year were salvaged by stamping a larger L over the smaller L in the working dies, thus in my opinion, an example of an intended design change. See the link in my post above. I'd like to hear other's thoughts. I wish Dansco and other album printers would offer a book with these Mint designs. I had to purchase blank pages to create my own album. Fortunately, since few people are collecting these details, they were relatively easy to find, even in slabbed coins.

 

My thoughts exactly! I collect regular issue coins. I can appreciate uncirculated and proof coins, and I have a few of them (they were very inexpensive), but that's not my focus. I'm glad that some of you do collect them. I like seeing them preserved. I feel the same about error coins. I enjoy, very much, when I see them, but not interested in collecting them. But, these shouldn't occupy a space in a regular Coin collecting book, IMHO. So, I keep mine in 2x2's, and in generic books/pages that hold them.

 

no junk very nice pieces highlight of set

 

Slang term! A slouch is a person with bad posture, someone who doesn't stand up straight, so to say your coins are no slouch is actually a very nice compliment! So @David Betts is spot on. Zero slouches in that collection.