So When Will Dealers Pay Attention?

I'll jump in here also, I'm for sure a hoarder as I just keep getting more, no selling yet, or expected. As to favorites... The most recent one is always near the top of the list, but since each one is a story they are all like favorites to some degree. I also enjoy organizing them so each tidbit of information makes me re-examine stacks of coins looking for the new details. Your thread for example has already involved quite some time staring at 1882s through microscope looking for the repunched areas you've highlighted.

Thanks for sharing!

yep we all do have our favorites. Mine is the micro D in 1881. Next to that are the full serif T's in 1876. Also the 9/9/9 in 1893, the 1859 9/6's both types. And then there are the..... Oh my. Back to my hoard, about 4000 last time I took a swag at the number.

My "favs" are very similar to Dan ... as friends, the two of us have been on about the same page for a number of years now. I'm partial to the 9/6's & R2b, the quad 9 1893, and all of the weird 81's(the best year for varieties). Dan got me started on the 1876's, which I previously thought were vanilla coins. I've got about 5000 in my hoard with many scarce multiples.

Yes the T in VICTORIA. There are 3 different full serif T's. One was featured in this years Charlton.

R2bR2c - can you please supply full name of what "CCRS" is short for? There are us "relatively newbie" oldies out here who are just getting the hang of the internet. Thanks

Seeing we have hoarders on here would they care to offer a variety count for a single favourite Victorian large cent variety in their collection? Some numbers could be a little scary. Would be interesting! I don't want to be nosy but a count on just one variety would be intriguing.

Okay. My favorite Victorian cent variety is an 1858 cent that has a fully intact reverse vine, as Wyon engraved it. Most 1858 cents have vine breaks at Leaf #7 (5 o'clock) and/or Leaf #13 (9 o'clock).

In my first book, The 1858 Cents of Provincial Canada, I based my published relative scarcity of the 1858 die varieties based on a random sample of 150 cents dated 1858. The sample found 4 different reverse dies (comprising 6 coins) with intact vines. All four of these dies made up 4% of the sample, meaning that only an estimated 1 in 25 cents dated 1858 have full vines.

Three of the four full vine reverse dies had all 16 leaf stems intact. One die had 15 intact stems, with the stem to Leaf #9 (6 o'clock) missing half of the stem. This very scarce die returned one example out of the 150 coin sample.

I have looked at many hundreds of 1858 cents since I wrote the book. My readers have looked at even more. It is my opinion that the original sample results hold very true for the entire 1858 population. If anything the full vine and one broken stem die is even scarcer than 1/150.

I put pictures of both types of 1858 full vine dies into the one cent variety section of the current Charlton catalog. Happy hunting.

I have around 8-10 Micro D's. Various grades of course. It's not so much hoarding as it is accumulating for research. I actually do off load a lot of Vickies over a year. In order to work on die identification on any given date you either have to have a reasonable sampling yourself or access to someone that does. In my case I am forturnate to have both. When we were kicking aroung what to add to the Charlton variety section we picked the most interesting varieties for each year. Clearly there are tons of others. For example, we only included 1 full serif T in 1876, but there are actually 3 of them. I also collect 1858's and 9/8's basesd on Turner varieties. I have about 60% completion of the 58's and about 90% on the 9/8's.