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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 5285571, member: 73165&quot;]I like both of these a lot.&nbsp; The 1810/09 is really wholesome looking, and I&#039;d be happy to own it.&nbsp; 1836 is a little too crusty looking for me with all that black stuff going on, but I love the die crack and the cud.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s bad enough trying to find one, single, solitary example for a type set.&nbsp; I currently have two 1813 large cents as type examples.&nbsp; One has really nice XF-ish detail, but all trace of its original surfaces is essentially gone, and it&#039;s been recolored.&nbsp; The other is graded XF details (environmental damage) by PCGS, for a few not terribly distracting patches of corrosion.&nbsp; This one is overall not quite as pleasing, but it actually has some remaining mint luster, which makes me doubt whether whatever happened to it was &quot;environmental damage.&quot;&nbsp; For all I know, it could have been made that way.&nbsp; Planchets were <i>terrible</i> on these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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