Posted 07/11/2010 07:18 am
The Charlton reprint of the original Griffin 1992 text has a verbal description of all the Large Cent varieties 1858-1920 for Canada and the Eastern Provinces that Jack found in his years of work. The reprint has photos for about 15-20% of the coins listed, but there are quite a number of photo/description mismatches, so you must be careful. The new 2011 annual Charlton guide has about 80 popular 1858-1901 Victoria Large Cent varieties with scarcity noted and a retail pricing guide based upon VF-20 coins and extrapolated from there. You could expect that many of the coins listed in the 2011 guide to be listed in Trends at some time in the future, as well as noted on TPG slabs .. .but that's not for certain. The new photos in the 65th edition are correctly matched with the description, but do not refer back to the Griffin numbers. Some are, however, referenced to new Turner numbers. Both are money well spent.
