Dansco 7099 (Large Cent) Puka Questions

Wow! Sounds like your plugging away at it. I am not that close but I am doing problem free coins in more affordable grades yet, nice eye appeal. I'm taking my time with it. It's a lot of fun :-)

I want at least full G4 and I go up to about the VF levels. I lean towards that nice "chocolate" color of the earlier LC's.

Here is one I just drool over!
Insane :-O

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1797-DRAPED...em2a1b2ee58d

There really isn't a good choice for the 1834's. First there are only two small 8 varieties and both of them are large star med letters. There is no small star variety. For the large 8 there are two varieties with small stars, both with med letters. There are three varieties with large stars, one with med letters and two with large letters. That makes four groups. So the Sm 8 Sm * Lg Ltr should be a Lg 8 Lg * Med Ltr. If you want a real challenge try to find a Large 8, *, and letters that doesn't have a circular die crack through the stars on the obv. If you manage to find one you either have a very early die state of N-6 (rare) or you've found the ninth specimen of N-7, a proof only variety. (Rod Widock turned up #8 about a decade ago, a pleasing VG-8.)

On the 1839 the obvious choice for the fifth hole is the head of 36, also known as the 39/6 overdate. Unfortunately that one is going to cost you. It isn't all that rare, R-3, but popular and higher priced than it should be.

All of this makes me happy I'm using a Whitman Classic, year only Large Cent Album. Only need one coin from each year. No worries about large dates, small dates, large letters, small leters, open this and closed that and on and on with the billions of different ones.

paleo, listen to justcarl

With my luck of late the Whitman album will have an 1815 in it!