1830 Large Cent - Large Or Medium Letters?

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mdpmedia Pillar of the Community United States 3546 Posts	Posted 09/18/2022 07:03 am I've never run into this coin before but according to the Greysheet the large and the medium letters are the only two types listed with pricing. I went to CoinFacts and saw the pictures comparing the large and medium letters. But I was still unsure if the distinction was actually the location of the letters in relationship to the leaves or the actual size of the letters? What does my coin have? Report this Post to the Staff

mdpmedia Pillar of the Community United States 3546 Posts	Posted 09/18/2022 07:10 am I thought I would also include the objkverse just in case there are some PUPs indicating the type of lettering. Report this Post to the Staff
IndianGoldEagle Bedrock of the Community United States 36741 Posts	Posted 09/18/2022 10:26 am Can you crop the photos and post larger images? Report this Post to the Staff
GERMANICVS Pillar of the Community Germany 1849 Posts	Posted 09/18/2022 11:52 am As far as I can see, you have a large large variety. The 1830 Medium Letters (Newcomb N-6) is most easily distinguished by looking at the spacing AT THE BOTTOM of the letters in the word STATES. In the medium letters variety the spacing is clearly larger than in other varieties for this year. Specially in the letters TAT. You can see this in my example the medium letters and compare to the example you show. Report this Post to the Staff
CarrsCoins Pillar of the Community United States 756 Posts	Posted 09/19/2022 9:41 pm i cant tell for sure, but I think this is an n-7. the 7 is a bit of a scarcer variety with a 2-5X price multiplier. Report this Post to the Staff
Oldgrouchyguy Pillar of the Community United States 630 Posts	Posted 09/20/2022 5:43 pm The N-5 and N-6 of 1830 share the same obverse, like no other 1830: the date is even, 0 not high. The N-5 has a Large letters reverse, the N-6 Medium letters (the A in STATES is all by itself), and the N-6 usually is centrally weak Report this Post to the Staff
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