Half Cent And Large Cent Variety Rarity Info ?

I've tried that site but couldn't access it's links. (?)

That works good on Lincoln Cent dates but not on early dates... unless I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks Celtic - I'll try that - but wish I knew where that rarity info comes from.... maybe someone else will add.

Thanks again Celtic - that's what I was looking for ... I tried the Heritage link - that works fine for now :)

Yeah, CQR has pretty up-to-date census information in it. You're not looking to identify varieties, just get R numbers on varieties you know, right? Noyes is the guy keeping track of such things these days.

If you want your own resource in your library try:

The Half Cent Die State Book/1793-1857 by Ronald P. Manley
OR
Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of United States Half Cents/1793-1857

As for Large Cents I know the books are out there but the only on I have this one since I wasn't deep into the earlier coins.

U. S. Cents/1840-1857 by John Grellman

BTW I believe they are all expensive; I know I paid $100 for the Grellman book.

Tom Deck EAC member and dealer has a nice website showing his personal collection here: http://www.largecents.net/

I forgot to mention The Cent book by John D. Wright, a fantastic book on the Middle dates, (the best IMO) I like it even better than Noyes book. There is a beat up copy selling cheap ($40.00) on ebay now. I sold my extra copy a couple of months ago here on CCF. You can still get them new from John and his wife Mabel or other EAC dealers for around $95-125.

On the Half Cents there is always the original Cohen "Little Half Sisters" book the 2nd edition is better as a reference, I have several copies of both 1st and 2nd editions in my library, I will pick them up when I find them for a bargain, they usually sell in the $75 and up range.

Auction catalogs and auction house websites are a great reference on certain varieties if you know what you are looking for, Goldbergs, Stack's/Bowers, Heritage are all in my often used bookmarks for their archives. I have many of their catalogs, just not the place to keep them all out at home right now, so most live in boxes in storage at the moment.

As to the later date Large cents, Bob Grellman has three editions out. The first one is in a 3 ring binder set, the second one (I have currently) is hardbound and co-authored with J. Reviers, his latest book is just his name and from what I understand greatly updated from the other two editions I mentioned and full of color photos.

Jack Robinson Copper Quotes are great, but unfortunately Jack has stopped producing and writing them now, so they will be out of date as to pricing.

Remember if you are an ANA Member, you can borrow most of these books for a month or more for only the cost of postage and insurance. I usually check out my maximum allotment of 6 items every month. It's a great resource to get books that are too expensive to buy, or when you just need a few pages to photocopy for your own research.