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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;frech001, post: 7664006, member: 20616&quot;]I&#039;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.&nbsp; I purchased all 30 years of issues of Longacre&#039;s Ledger, (the official publication of the FLYING EAGLE AND INDIAN CENT COLLECTORS SOCIETY <a href="http://www.fly-inclub.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fly-inclub.org" rel="nofollow">www.fly-inclub.org&nbsp; </a>I scanned them all to pdf so I could search them and gave the digital files to the club for posting on their website.&nbsp; I bought all the books I could find on these coins to identify all the deliberate changes by the mint.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t interested in collecting mistakes, which most varieties are, but rather changes the mint intended and released into circulation.&nbsp; Thus I wasn&#039;t interested in the 1856, Flying Eagle, which was essentially a pattern.&nbsp; And, I wanted circulated coins that were actually in people&#039;s pockets, part of our history.&nbsp; My research corresponds with Richard Snow&#039;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&#039;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.&nbsp; See the link in my post above.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to hear other&#039;s thoughts.&nbsp; I wish Dansco and other album printers would offer a book with these Mint designs.&nbsp; I had to purchase blank pages to create my own album.&nbsp; Fortunately, since few people are collecting these details, they were relatively easy to find, even in slabbed coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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