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Picked up the US Large Cents books at the Philly show. What a wealth of information. One slight down side. I've gone from not having the resources to attribute my late dates to realizing that I'll never be able to attribute some of them. As I suspected, some attribute markers are really subtle like die chips in the denticles. One was roughness from die rust on the neck area. If you have a coin that isn't at least VF, those attribute are embedded in the pocket linings of many old britches. Why couldn't the mint just make more varied hand crafted dies like middle dates? They could have saved all that QC stuff for small cents! Guess I just need to get better coins. |
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Yeah, through out the worn coins and just buy BU Red from now on!!
KK
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Yea, Tom Reynolds told me I should be buying better coins. However, album would look silly with just one coin in it.
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United States
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Did you pick up the Newcomb book, or something else?
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The Noyes two volume set 1816 through 1857.
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I've been looking online for that two book series. Haven't found anything under $240.00. I'm trying to find a used set at a better price.
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OldSkoolMadSkilz - congratulations on buying the books! I still need the late dates book and had hoped to find a used one, but haven't had much luck. Regarding the attribute markers - often you can determine the variety without having to verify most or all of the markers. If you find one marker then you can either include or exclude varieties based on that one fact. Of course it gets complicated when you encounter a large number of varieties in a particular year.  Member ANA and EAC "You got to lose to know how to win". Dream On by Aerosmith |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Quote:
The Noyes two volume set 1816 through 1857. The two volume Noyes books are 1793 through 1839. Quote:
I've been looking online for that two book series. Haven't found anything under $240.00. I'm trying to find a used set at a better price. Good luck. There is only one distributor for those books, Charlie Davis, and the first volume is only sold as part of the set. The second book does sell separately and sometime it will turn up used at a lower price. But the first book rarely shows up by itself and the set seldom comes on the after market either. About the only place I've seen them at a lower price has been in the literature auctions that Fred Lake runs. That was where I got my volume two (which I now need to replace). He had a set that sold separately in his last sale but they went for $150 and $100 respectively. That doesn't include the juice, packing or shipping. At that rate you can buy a brand new set cheaper from Charlie. Edited by Conder101
08/11/2012 09:09 am
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This is a new set. The first book 1816-1845 and the second is 1846-1857. There is a 5 on the spine of the first and 6 on the other, which makes it sound like these are a continuation of the earlier ones, not a new edition. Can't explain the middle date overlap.
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OldSkool: Who wrote the books you picked up. I'm not familiar with those two volumes, covering those dates. I have what Condor said.
KK
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William Noyes. From what I understand they JUST came out. Do you have a way to get hold of Jon Lusk?
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Bedrock of the Community
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I think you've bought the wrong books. I think what you've purchased are copies of the extended condition census listings. It is a record of the finest 10 to 20 known pieces and pedigree of each for each variety. They are not the variety identification books. Volume 1 was 1793 and 94, volume 2 was 1795 through I think 1797. I wasn't aware the later volumes had been published yet.
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Bedrock of the Community
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All of the above is why I use the Whitman year only Large Cent Albums. At coin shows when looking for a Large Cent date, so many dealers start in with all that detailed stuff and I just say, I have year only Albums for those. I get some odd looks but sure saves me going nuts looking for all those varieties.
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Nope, they are attribution guides. Hot off the presses. Nice color plates. Check out the detail. I scaled it way down so that it isn't usable to avoid violating the copyright.  Here's the cover. It's actually more of a maroon color.  |
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I hope you didn't burn your hands on these books, them being hot off the press. I haven't seen them advertised in EAC pub/online? I wonder how these compare to the Grellman/Wright books? Don't mean to press this further but do they attribute for example all 26 N#s for 1846, all 43 N#s for 1847, and all 45 N#s for 1851?
KK
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You betcha. These things are BIG. At least one page for each and more if there is variation between die states. Lots of soiled images for the late die states.
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Posted 08/10/2012 3:07 pm
