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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Centennial, post: 1689079, member: 44160&quot;]Hello to one and all of my coinacious brothers and sisters!</p><p>&nbsp;I am not only an avid coin collector, but also an artist. Any how, as with some artist displaying work to show is more a matter of suggestion or accuracy. To me, i prefer either or. Any way, whilst i was looking through the web, for Indian Head Pennies, as i am currently working on Making Giant Americana style Indian head penny, I came across this thread for part of my study...&nbsp; It all started while doing study drawings for this particular penny. Basically i do drawings first, then i layout a guide, then i sculpt from clay a rendering like the coin i am doing. I did this with the Lincoln Cent, 3 different sizes. I decided to follow suit with the Indian Head Cent... I&#039;m working on the introduction year of 1859... I was doing studies of this coin and figured all of the obverse to be the same.... So i did the drafts to both 1859 and 1909... When i observed closely, i noticed that 1859 which is known as the type 1 indian head the head dress tail feather points between I and C in America. When i observed the 1909 study i did, i noticed the same head dress feather point between the C and A in America. That much is clear. But i revealed another startling discovery that, i&#039;m not sure any one else picked up on.... The Type 1 style coins have the rimmed or toothed nubs, at a count of 125 teeth... this is evident in all Indian Cents from 1859 to 1886. While the Type 2 style coins have the rimmed or toothed nubs, at a count of 136 teeth... This is clearly evident in all Indian Cents from 1886 to 1909... It helped me so that when i spend the countless hours sculpting the Giant Indian Head Cent, i will now have to make 2 different kinds of Obverse... I hope that this information is useful to you in the near future, when determining not only the style, but authenticity of the Indian Head Cents... Count the rimmed nubs on type 1 and 2 and you will be amazed... Thank you once again for your attention my coinacious brothers and sisters![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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