I've been trying to find a site that explains the differences between the Sheldon varieties of the 1800/79 large cent. I've seen a few sites that describes a few of the varieties, but I haven't been able to piece together a full set of defining characteristics. Does anyone know where I might find a site that has that?
There really isn't a website that will do this explicitly. You have to look and compare photos of each of the Sheldon varieties to attribute using only the internet. My suggestion is to buy a book. Your best bang for your buck would be the new Half Cents and Large Cents by David Bowers. It doesn't give you any variety information on middle and late dates, but it should get the job done on all the Sheldon varieties from 1793-1814.
Thanks. I had found that site and had looked at the pictures pretty closely. I'm primarily having trouble finding differences between S-195 and S-196, but am also curious as to what the NC-1 and NC-2 varieties look like.
And the pages in the book that cover each variety (sorry I'm not going to track each of those pages down and provide links. The images in the online book aren't good so use the books descriptions ad the auction images.
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