My First Large Cent

A large cent was one of our first purchases. It was so cool to hold something that old, in such good condition. You could almost picture past amilies saving or spending the coin. Great purchase - hope you enjoy it!

Nice coin,
I just got one of those from vermontensium's "then and now rare coins" ecrater store, which I highly reccomend for $3 . But you coin is in very good condition compaired to mine. Nice buy!

[w} I like the history of the early coppers, I just picked up an 1804 Half Cent the other day myself, love the older Americana one can still hold in hand.

You did OK, with a group of coins which seem to be gaining in popularity.
I think KK makes very good points.

I'm going by today as well... Hopefully before you get there! If you like bid boards, and you haven't checked it out, there is a very large bi-weekly bid board at the shop at 41st & Sheridan.

Well, as you apparently like silver you missed it then. Richard was buying a collection. Apparently around 40 lbs of silver or that's at least what I overheard. I wasn't there through the whole thing, but he had over $70.00 face in Mercury dimes in old bank rolls.

Unfortunately his IHC stock isn't very robust. Looks like I'm going to have to turn to ebay for my hunt.

Boomer. I do mostly collect silver coins but lately I am getting into pennies and nickels. Really my stash is mostly bullion australian silver coins they release each year.

I have a feeling Richard will enjoy hunting through those rolls of Mercs.

I cant say I've really seen a big stash of IHC's in Tulsa before. I dug through Richards bulk IHCs today. Came home with a decent 1897 and a few more barbers. He is quickly becoming my favorite shop. He really has it all if you ask, it is incredible what he has stashed away.

Chewy... I'll fight the addiction until I learn more, but yeah I see more in my future.

Nice looking coin and the price for that condition is really OK. The only thing wrong is your future if you continue trying to collect those things. I have been collecting coins for a long, long time but for some reason never collected those Large Cents. So about a year or so back I started collecting thoes. Then ran into the fact that there are possibly a billion varieties. (slight exageration you know). But really there are a lot of those. And too, some are so expensive I'd have to take out a morgage on my house to buy them. Lucky for me the Album I have for them is only Year only one. That means even if there are a billion varieties of a year, I only need one of them. Then too at coin shows all the dealers and others are referring to them with some kind of N nubering. I think I got involved in some horrible attempt at a coin that no one can ever complete.
Actually contrary to that at a recent coin show one dealer had about 3 tables full of Large Cents. Many were like MS grades. Other dealers said he is famous for those.