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Jimbo48 Valued Member United States 250 Posts	Posted 03/30/2024 7:41 pm Today I received an 1858 LL Flying Eagle from an ebay Auction for $48. The coin looked like it could potentially be an overdate from the ebay photos, so I bid on it. I just gave it the acetone/Verdi-Care treatment and I really like the results and it has all the overdate markings. What is interesting to me is that I have been looking for this update for over 10 years and now I have found two in less then a month. I guess the first is always the hardest! Report this Post to the Staff

Petespockets55 Pillar of the Community United States 5772 Posts	Posted 03/30/2024 9:37 pm Remarkable. Congrats on the second one as well. Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups. We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 03/30/2024 9:56 pm to the CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 74064 Posts	Posted 03/30/2024 11:02 pm Awesome! Congratulations on your second one. Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
Marv65 Bedrock of the Community United States 10520 Posts	Posted 03/30/2024 11:32 pm Great Flying Eagle cent! Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 03/31/2024 04:25 am Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 188213 Posts	Posted 04/01/2024 1:52 pm Nice example! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
Dearborn Moderator United States 95740 Posts	Posted 04/01/2024 9:36 pm Very nice flyer! Collecting since 1972. Learning from then on "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin 7070 type set coin count: 51/76 Uncirculated American Silver Eagles My American Silver Eagle Proof Collection Sacagawea Dollars Innovation Dollars Eisenhower-Dollars Kennedy-Half Dollars Washington-Quarters Roosevelt-Dimes Buffalo-Nickels 1938-2005 Jefferson-Nickels Lincoln-Cents Report this Post to the Staff
CentR Valued Member United States 139 Posts	Posted 04/01/2024 10:45 pm Just to be sure, did you check to see if the specs are within a reasonable range of the standard 19 mm diameter and 4.7 g weight? I'm a mouthy novice, so my observations are less than meaningless, as anyone that's seen my posts can attest. There's something about the fairly decent detail in some low points of the feathers that's near pretty decent wear on the high points that seems a bit abrupt to my untrained eye. It made me wonder if the wear marks on the other recent find are different or eerily similar? Hopefully I am way off as usual. Report this Post to the Staff
Jimbo48 Valued Member United States 250 Posts	Posted 04/02/2024 01:49 am The weight and diameter check out. The tail wear is normal for his variety. In addition, the weak right side of the reverse is also normal. Rick Snow discusses this in his book. The reverse die marker dots on the lower right side is also an indicator. PCGS indicates this as a variety detail. I have looked at all of my 1858 LL flying eagles and they do not have these two dots. Rick Snow told me that this probably was the result of a die pair specific to the overdate. Report this Post to the Staff
CoinHunter27 Pillar of the Community United States 5887 Posts	Posted 04/03/2024 01:13 am Super cool find. Congratulations! Curious where you learned to find the reverse side marker? -CH27 Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage Report this Post to the Staff
Jimbo48 Valued Member United States 250 Posts	Posted 04/03/2024 1:02 pm Actually, I found it on this forum when I was looking for a discussion of Attributes for this overdate. It is not mentioned in Rick Snow's book on Attributes. I emailed him with the attached picture below and this was his reply. eerc All 1858/7's are High Leaves reverse. That die marker on the reverse die could be used as a die marker for that reverse die. It would be interesting to see if that reverse shows up on any other non-overdate coin. So I got him thinking about it since he does not mention it as an attribute in his book. At any rate I have only found it on overdate coins and not on regular 1858 LL's Report this Post to the Staff
Dearborn Moderator United States 95740 Posts	Posted 04/04/2024 07:54 am thanks for posting up that closeup of the markers. Collecting since 1972. Learning from then on "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin 7070 type set coin count: 51/76 Uncirculated American Silver Eagles My American Silver Eagle Proof Collection Sacagawea Dollars Innovation Dollars Eisenhower-Dollars Kennedy-Half Dollars Washington-Quarters Roosevelt-Dimes Buffalo-Nickels 1938-2005 Jefferson-Nickels Lincoln-Cents Report this Post to the Staff
CoinHunter27 Pillar of the Community United States 5887 Posts	Posted 04/04/2024 7:06 pm Cool, thanks. Was just interested since that was the original marker I pointed out on this forum! The photo you used was mine too! Glad to see others are using the knowledge. Will be cool if Snow ever gets around to fully recognizing it as a die marker for this variety. Again, awesome find! -CH27 Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage Report this Post to the Staff
Dearborn Moderator United States 95740 Posts	Posted 04/04/2024 7:40 pm I love the transfer of knowledge here on CCF. great place to learn and pick up new information. Collecting since 1972. Learning from then on "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin 7070 type set coin count: 51/76 Uncirculated American Silver Eagles My American Silver Eagle Proof Collection Sacagawea Dollars Innovation Dollars Eisenhower-Dollars Kennedy-Half Dollars Washington-Quarters Roosevelt-Dimes Buffalo-Nickels 1938-2005 Jefferson-Nickels Lincoln-Cents Report this Post to the Staff
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