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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2541520, member: 66&quot;]Word of caution about the Redbook, READ the text.&nbsp; It contains a lot of good information.&nbsp; Do NOT pay a lot of attention to the prices listed in the book.&nbsp; As with any book, the prices are out of date as soon as it is published.&nbsp; The 2017 edition came out around April of 2016 and the prices were compiled in 2015 and used to make &quot;guesses&quot; as to what the values would be.&nbsp; However you can learn some things and make some guesses of your own passed on the patterns in the values.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As to the roman numeral reverses, these first appeared on the three cent piece in 1851 where they needed a simple clear design on a tiny coin.&nbsp; The roman 3 continued on the larger copper nickel version in 1865.&nbsp; In the late early 1880&#039;s there was a move to give all the minor coins a common design and patterns were produced with roman 1, 3, and 5 in a wreath for the reverse.&nbsp; The idea was adopted for the five cent in 1883 but not for the one cent and they didn&#039;t change the three cent to make them uniform.&nbsp; The three cent piece was discontinued a few years later and they weren&#039;t making very many of them after 1876 anyway (except in 1881).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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