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Thats a great story just carl. I grew up on a farm, and about 10 or 15 years ago my dad and I were cleaning out the shop, and behind a big metal shelf my dad found a wooden fold out tape measure that he had broke and hid back there when he was a kid. Still didn't tell my granddad, we just threw it away and got a good laugh out of it.
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Curiosity got the better of me so I went out into the gun safe and got out the jar of large cents mentioned earlier in this this thread. I was wrong, there were not 50 of them, only 47. Photo attached. I guess I'll have to get out my reference books and go through them to see what varieties they are. They haven't been out of that jar in 30 plus years.  |
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I guess I'll have to get out my reference books and go through them to see what varieties they are. They haven't been out of that jar in 30 plus years. It appears that you have a fun time ahead of you!  |
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jfransch- yeah that will be really cool to go through those! Please tell us what you find.
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And heck !.....post up some pics of the good ones !!....... |
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I agree with eaglefoot! We need pics.
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Okay, okay. Here is the first update. These are the 10 earliest dates
1802
1803 (2)
1805
1807/6
1807 (3)
1810
1812
I tried to scan images but the coins are too dark for the scans to really show much. The overdate is really clear. The 1802 is almost worn smooth. One of the 1807's has a completely rotated reverse. I'll see if I can't use a camera and get some photo's. I could use any help on identifying varieties that anyone can offer.
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jfransch- wow! quite old coins to have been circulating in the first half of the 20th century.
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The overdate is almost certainly an S-273. Not rare but one of the boldest overdates in the entire US series. (If it is an S-272 then you have a really sought after rarity. Does the 1 have a pointed upper serif or is it blunt and the 1 very close to the curl?)
The 1807 with the inverted reverse is an S-276, the last of the Draped Bust cents. Although it can be found otated to most any position the S-276 typically ome with four common rotations and about 80% of them have the reverse rotated nearly 180 degrees.
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