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United States
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First let me thank you all. I sometimes pop in and out of the non-US forums and have obscure questions and your patience with me is appreciated. I have been digging into some old portions of my collection and trying to thin down all non-US coins. This one popped up. Still has mint lustre on it in parts. Scans make it look terrible but it looks good without the crazy magnification of the scans. Just thought to post it up and see if someone could share value or possible variety information with me about it. (my typical prequel apology about scans instead of pictures. Please forgive.)   |
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 United States
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Nice dog hair!...yeah yeah I know.
No scraps or dents, a few dark spots but on the reverse the dark spot is just that. Not a chopmark, or damage in case you were wondering.
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Canada
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Hi, RFB, Pop in any time you want.  , everyone is welcome. your scans are pretty good, for scans, your coin seems to be in pretty nice condition, looks at least EF to me, maybe better.  There are three varieties of the 1876 large Cent, with only two with the "H". According to the Charlton book, in EF condition it shows $18.00 Hope this helps some. Edited by SHAFTA9a
09/09/2009 05:44 am
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Hi, well I would have to agree with Shafta, looks like EF, but in hand just might make AU...
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The only real scarce variety of the 1876 is a "full-footed" N for the N's in Canada and Regina, somewhere around a 200:1 ratio. 99+% will have only a half-serif on the left foot of the N's. I know of only 3, but Griffin mentions it in his book and assigns a rarity 8 to it (the scarcest). A 59 DP#1 is only a rarity 6. Almost all 1876's have repunched digits in the date and all 8's are recut to some extent
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Please disregard my last post on the "full-footed" N's. It was too early in the morning and my head wasn't cleared yet with coffee. There are NO full-footed N's for the 1876's. What IS a Griffin rarity 8 is the single-footed 1881 N's like the 1876's. All the 1881 & 1882's will have a sometimes crude repunching of the N's. I know of only 3 single-footed 1881 N's and I have 2 of them .. .they are very very very scarce. What IS a nice 1876 variety, not mentioned in Griffin, is a full-footed T in Victoria (my mistake again for inadvertantly mixing them). Very early in the production run for 1876, the hub, which makes the working dies, suffered gradually breaking off of the left side of the foot of the T in Vicky. They are relatively scarce, maybe a ration of 40-50:1 and they are nice to pick up. Everything said about the repunching/recuts of the digits remain true, especially the 8, which is always repunched to some degree.
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United States
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As far as varieties go, I see really nothing out of the ordinary with your coin, but it's sure to have repunches/recuts, especially on the obverse, but the resolution isn't the best. However, the 1881H Canada Large Cent is probably the greatest date for major variety collectors that there is, and I'm not talking about die cracks or breaks, but Major varieties. It is the only large cent date that has 2 listed Griffin rarity 8's and, with the "spur-leg" N in Regina and the large D over small D in Dei that are not listed by rarity but are very hard to find, makes the thrill of the hunt that much better. Pay particular attention to the N's in Regina and Canada when you look at your 1881's and also for "around-the-clock" hub doubling on some of the obverses.
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United States
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I have an 1890-H probably would grade a VF20. Any idea of resale value in that grade?
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