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1851/81? Large Cent For Eval.

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This one looked like a late die stage with very faint markers on obverse to identify it as the overdate. The reverse has the blob of metal on the upper part of N in cent that Bob Grellman told me is the best way to attribute a late stage N-3. Date position looked good also.
1851/81?-Large-Cent-For-Eval.
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1851/81?-Large-Cent-For-Eval.
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In the future, please do not post photos of scope screens. Use the memory card or a USB cable to transfer images so we can get a better look at the details.

That being said, I have seen worse. Hopefully someone can spot some markers here.
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N-3 looks correct, but I'm not seeing much of the overdate.
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nice braided large cent - hard to see the over date, even on other examples I searched for, but would that point of the center of the 5 be part of the 8?
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not sure about part of 8 being in center of 5. Small part of 8 to left of 5 possibly. Very hard to see the lines on the 1 though.
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but would that point of the center of the 5 be part of the 8?

From NGC: " This variety was apparently created when the punch used to punch the date into the obverse die was partly punched in upside down and then corrected without the underlying inverted "18", appearing as "81", being completely effaced. (On examples of N3 struck once the dies had become worn, the inverted date feature may not show, and NGC will not classify these as "18/INV 18.)"

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