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1888/7 Indian Head Cent - How To Tell

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I don't have one but want to learn how to detect these.
I tried googling the images but it wasn't that helpful.
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Here are the major markers seen on every coin (arrows)
The most important, of course, is the foot of the 7 under the 8.
The date position is important too, as it's different on every die.

1888/7-Indian-Head-Cent---How-To-Tell

If you have one you're wondering about...
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Yes...pics ! I've already cruised every 1888 on ebay lol.
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you, me, and how many hundred others?
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I don't own any 1888 Indian Head cents.

What I was thinking of doing was looking over my dealers and see if he missed any.

@DV, thanks for the help.
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If you do, it would be the find of the lifetime.
As of now, I think there are no more than 30 total.
It's possible there are some still out there--good luck!
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I don't if this is allowed but it was a great read that I found as I was looking around for info on the 88/7. It even has Rick Snow contributing to the thread.
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Ah...I found that thread. Yeah--someone sure lucked out for $4.
They don't explain where they found it, but I doubt it was ebay.
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I liked that he had to convince Snow it was an 88/7.
Yeah hard telling where he cherry picked it.
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I can only guess Rick Snow gets countless requests daily to look at IHC pictures
But that one was a good example of the 8/7 hiding in plain sight--due to crud.
Finding the Snow-1 would be my "holy grail", but I have switched over to world overdates--it's been more rewarding.

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Ummm... I didn't think it was that rare.
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The Snow-1 is definitely a rare coin. The PCGS population report is 44 coins total--so a few more have been found since I last checked.
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