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 Posted 08/21/2013  6:32 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add godless117 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Recently I have been starting to catalog my 1859 large cents and identifying them via the Haxby site (www.vickycents.com). It's been a bit difficult so far I've identified one of my 1859's to be a 31A5, State 1 (I think). Which leads me to my question, does anyone have any idea which of these numbers are rare or uncommon? Thanks in advance.
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 Posted 08/21/2013  10:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add colonialtokens to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
As of now, I only have 1 31a5.

Doctor Haxby's site is awesome and user friendly.

Doctor Haxby's site opened the floodgate for 1859 varieties.

His site is in its' infancy and it is too early to formulate
any realistic census population. I have well over 200 of his
listed varieties. On some varieties I have over 30 duplicates.
On others, only 1 ensample. But the sole ensamples is misleading,
for I also have a dozen or so RP 9 #1's. The #1's are rare.
Overdates are popular and well promoted. Most of the others
have been neglected for aeons. Mr. Jack Griffin conducted an
early study of the varieties, but his work was incomplete and
confusing. Whereas, Dr. Haxby's site is an extensive and
comprehensive treatise on the subject. In time, a more sound
census should be available.

doug
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Thanks for your reply. It makes for something else to collect when my small/large cent collection nears completion. I have found so far a 31a5 and a 31a6, I don't understand enough about the states to say for sure but I think they're both state ones.
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What about ROD TURNER"S site-------Victoriancent_(dotcom)----He has catalogs and books----pricey though $160.
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Rob Turner's tomes are awesome extensive works which are a must have for numismatists.
Mr. Turner's works cover the 1858, the 1858/9 overdates, and the balance of the Vicky
series. Mr. Turner's work do not extensively detail the 1859 narrow 9 series. Doctor
Haxby's site is a detailed study of the narrow 9 varieties. The works of both authors
compliment each other and are most welcome.

doug
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 Posted 08/26/2013  8:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Valiamo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to godless117: Great start to a conversation, spent until 1AM in the morning re-looking at my 1859 pennies for the varieties.

It took me a while to get the hang of the vickycents website, but once I got going it was getting easier and easier. I have not been able to 100% idenitify a coin/state, but I am much farther than I ever was before, and having a hoot looking at my coins again.

You got me hooked again! gonna have to sell off some silver to afford more 1959's to attibiute!
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The Haxby site is still very much a work in progress. As mentioned above the focus is only on the narrow 9 1859 cents, Rob Turner has covered the 9/8 and 1858 cents in his written work. At this point approx 237 narrow 9 die pair combinations have been documented. It is estimated that there are a few more obverses yet to be documented, and perhaps several dozen reverses yet to document. So you could discover something new.

As to die states, Only obverses 1-15 or so have been carefully fleshed out at this point on vickycents. Doctor Haxby has the information available for all the others but both Jim and his website helper have been swamped for the last few months so updates and additonal information is coming but not yet published. Attributing coins via vickycents is addictive once you do get used to the system. Enjoy!
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