Question For Kurt (Or Anyone Who Knows A Lot About IHP)

Assuming you mostly have 1880-1909 coins, key varieties/errors to look for:

1886 T1 vs T2- look at the feathers and see if last feather is pointing to I or is between C and A. The T2 is slight more rare I believe. This is a variety, not an error

1888- look for last 8 over 7, supposedly very very rare and probably the king of the errors in Indian cents

1894: Look for doubled date

1897: Look for a 1 in the neck

For pre-1880:

1860: Point bust vs rounded bust- variety, not error

1864: Copper nickel vs Bronze. For the Bronze, there are two varieties: 64 and 64L. The 64L is much more rare. If you can't see the L (have to turn coin 90 degrees at back of the head where the ribbon is), you can tell the difference between the no L vs L by the bust- 64L has pointed bust, 64 has rounded bust. The three major 64s are varieties, not errors.

The other thing to look for on the 64s is doubled dated. I have a couple in my collection

1865: the 5 can be plain or fancy- variety, not error

1869: 69/69 doubled date. This one is tough and is often missing in complete colelctions sold on ebay.

1873: closed 3 vs open 3- variety not an error; also doubled "Liberty" (very rare, in part because most 1873 are worn down too far to even see "Liberty")

There are many minor varieties/errors, but I don't have enough knowledge on those.

Hi, and I'm glad my links were of some help. And, for the record, I just started studying/collecting IHP. From the little I know, to cover all the varieties, there would be a lot of detail that would practically involve writing a book! However, there are good books out there already, such as Fivaz/Stanton's "Cherrypicker's Guide", or Rick Snow's attribution guides. Additionally, I can add some valuable die varieties to the list above, such as the 1865 DDR, the 1867/67 RPD, 1887 DDO, 1870 Snow-8 (valuable: I found copy #10!), 1873/73 RPD, 1890 QDO (quadruple die), 1888/888 Snow-2 RPD (valuable!), 1894/94 to name a few! So...I might be interested in buying those IHC from you, email me.