1760 Voce Populi Nelson 5 And 16

Good god. I had to google it. The only thing I can say is that I have yet to see one come up for auction. Or atleast I haven't noticed one. Perhaps because that is one butt ugly dude on the obverse. Kind of like the Hibernia issues.

Edit: I should say I'm not sure if we have any colonial specialists. I've dabbled into them but that's where my expertise ends.

Possibly for the same reason certain variety numbers are missing in other series. Either it was a mis-described piece, or as in the case of some late date large cent varieties it turns out to be die stage of a different variety. In either case no example that matches the variety description is known.

In that case like the 25 N-5 one may eventually turn up.

If anybody has the literature curious to know if anything out there on it. @NH collector could be right just odd an off-metal pattern would get a separate designation.

Any pictures out there of the rare Nelson-16?

As I said in my last post "In that case like the 25 N-5 one may eventually turn up."

I think there are four or five of them now. Makes you wonder why. They were listed in 1882 and 1883 and not a singe specimen was found between then and 1944 when Newcomb listed it on the strength of Andrew's description. Then was finally delisted around 1982 because not a single one had been found for 100 years. Then Tom Deck finds one and suddenly three or four more show up.. It isn't a hard variety to identify, so why, with so many copper specialists out there, did it take so long to find them? My guess is that after being told that no specimen of N-5 had been seen, when they attributed 1825's once either the N-4 obv, or the N-10 rev was identified they stopped looking and assumed it was that variety. Once Deck found one, people started looking at both sides.