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1844 N1 MDS F15/10+

As you may recall, I've ventured into US Large Cents as a main focus for my collection. I had just started to post some info on the coins that I've been purchasing when the old site went away. So they're back. First Large Cent for my collection -- It's a Late Date cent. Large Cent collectors break the coins down into three catagories, Early Dates 1793-1814, Middle Dates 1816-1839, and Late Dates 1840-1857. 1843 N6 MDS F12/8 As I learn more about what all of the different designations really mean, I'll update this. N6 = Newcomb 6 that's the variety as described by Newcomb in his book. This is a "very common" variety. MDS = Middle Die State F12/8 = the grade of the coin. This is EAC grading. The coin's grade is F12 but because of scratches and recoloring its net grade is 8.

Beautiful florin and token.

I love them. Great tokens. They should make quite a splash in the others or copper catagories for our next BCPI.

Neat notes. Thanks for the pics.

The coin looks beautiful. Is it my misperception or is it rather difficult and pricey to keep up with the RCM's offerings?

05Aug05 Congratulations on the twins. That's wonderful.

Very nice experience and a copper too. WOW!

FE & IHC ANACs Flying Eagle 1874 MS60 1900 EF40c 1856 1875 1901 MS60r 1857 VF35 1876 1901 MS60 1858 LL 1877 1902 EF45 1858 SL VF20 1878 1903 EF45 1858 SL VF20 1879 MS63RB 1903 VF35 1858 8/7 1880 EF45 1903 VG8 Indian Head 1881 F12 1904 VG8 1859 EF45 1882 1905 MS63RB 1860 Type I G6 1883 1905 EF40 1860 Type II VF20 1884 1905 EF40 1861 AU50 1885 AU50 1905 VF35 1862 VG8 1886 I 1905 VF20 1863 G6 1886 II G6 1906 MS64 RB 1864CN EF45 1887 1906 AU55 S1 1864CN VG8 1888 EF45 1906 EF40 1864BR MS62 1888 EF45 1907 MS64RB 1864BR VF20 1888 8/7 1907 MS60RB 1864L 1889 EF40 1907 AU58 1865 F12 1889 EF40 1907 AU55r 1865 Plain5 F15 1890 AU50 1907 AU55 1866 1891 VF35 1907 AU55 1867 1892 1907 AU50 1867/7 1893 MS63BRN 1907 EF45 1868 F12 1894 1907 EF40 1869 1894 dbl 1907 VF30 1869 9/9 1895 AU58 1907 G4 1870 1895 AU55 S1 1908 VF35 1871 1896 EF40 1908-S EF40 1872 1897 F12 1909 MS64BRN 1873 c3 1898 MS60r 1909 MS61BRN 1873 o3 1899 PF61RB 1909-S . 1873 dbl lib 1899 AG3

My main collecting interest is Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents. I've just started on US Large Cents and Half Cents so my main collection is now a three way thing. In addition I have a set I'm building of world - one coin & one note from each country. Fun to put together. Also some 6d & 3d from the UK.

Stujoe & Anton are working on getting the html to work.

I'm thinking that after this one is complete and we get toward the end of the summer, I'll kick off an 05 Short Snorter. Keep watching -- it's coming.

Unless, of course, you are a slab collector.

It's been said about 500,000,000 times but I'll take this opportunity to say it again. You need to know what you are buying and buy the coin - not the slab. There I said it. If you are buying slabbed, sight-unseen, high dollar, go with a well know service like ANACS, PCGS, NGC - they each have specialties so you need to learn that. Make sure you have a return on everything unless you know the seller quite well. Above all --- have fun.

Even though I'm venturing into Large Cents and Half Cents, the Indian Head cent is still my very favorite design.

I think Stujoe addressed this rule in another post. I just can't find it right now. Maybe someone who's better with search can locate it.

PM sent..

Just an update and a place holder for these beauties. Stujoe has the snorters and will be sending them on to me shortly. I will scan them and then return them to their respective owners. After that I'll work with Stujoe and Anton to find a home here for the images. I saw the notes before they went off to Europe. They are great. PS. They'd probably go well in the Banknote Virtual Museum.

Great banknotes. The designs and colors are terrific.

CoinFacts as many of you know is a terrific information site for all types of US Coins. They have pics and good info on all of the US Copper Coins, including Colonials. CoinFacts

The Fly-In club's mission statement is "Our mission is to gather and disseminate information related to James B. Longacre (1794-1869), with emphasis on his work as Chief Engraver of the Mint (1844-1869) with a primary focus on his Flying Eagle and Indian Cent coinage." This site has just been redone and contains a good amount of useful information. Fly-In Club Website The FlyIn Club now has an online forum in addition to the website. It's new and so there isn't much content yet. Fly-In Club Online Forum

Early American Coppers (EAC) is a not-for-profit numismatic specialty organization founded in 1967 to serve as a point of contact for collectors of early U.S. copper coins - Colonials, Half Cents, Large Cents, and Hard Time Tokens. Today EAC comprises over 1,200 members located throughout the United States. EAC members are deeply interested in the historical background, attribution, grading, rarity, and related aspects of the early coppers, as well as collecting and trading. Many EAC members are highly knowledgeable and prolific contributors to the numismatic literature of this country. EAC publishes a bi-monthly magazine, Penny-Wise, with most issues running over 50 pages. Penny-Wise contains numerous original articles pertaining to early coppers. A number of articles which appeared first in Penny-Wise have subsequently been reprinted in The Numismatist. Three of the reprinted articles are Heath Award winners Early American Coppers Club

Founded in 1967, the Civil War Token Society is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to help stimulate interest and research in the field of Civil War token collecting. Civil War Token Society

I separated the review from the syllabus to make a smaller and easier to read file. Review The Seminar was outstanding. All of the ANA personnel involved were extremely knowledgeable and well prepared. Gail Baker, Director of Education, led the instructional team and was excellent at quickly forming our diverse group of teachers into a friendly, sharing, interactive group of learners. Lane Brunner brought he extensive love and knowledge of Numismatics to the class, along with his polished classroom presentation skills. Cathy Scaife demonstrated a love and skill for using ancient coins in the classroom that certainly warrants ACE's Harlan J. Berk Prize for Teacher Excellence awarded to her last year. As you can see from the syllabus, the ANA and a number of Numismatic Companies have provided us with not only lesson plans that revolve around the use of coins, but also the materials and resources to implement and improve upon these plans. We should have no trouble adapting the plans to our classrooms and creating new and more extensive plans as our own expertise increases. The ANA is creating a list-serve network to allow teachers who have attended Coins in the Classroom to continue to share ideas, lesson plans, and other resources. To aid us in having access to resources, the ANA has given each student a six-month membership. This will allow full use of the ANA Library and research facilities. The Seminar provided a broad-brush education on Money and Numismatics enabling those participants who were not Numismatists to quickly understand the basics of coins, collecting, Numismatic terminology, and the minting processes. An informative presentation about the origins of money and the history of coins provided useful information to even the experienced collectors in the group. A vast array of coins and currencies was made available for us to inspect during the lessons. This helped each of us to better understand the discussions about design, metals, and the minting processes. Emphasis was placed on using the coins to reflect the history of their times. Discussions about things like resource management during the Second World War, accompanied by steel cents and silver nickels are sure to get the attention of any student. We simulated an Ancient Coin classroom lesson by having each student clean and attribute 3 ancient Roman coins. It was an interesting experience. One of my coins is still being soaked. The other two were processed enough to be attributable. One of my coins, a Diocleation from 295-299 was not present in the CD or online photo databases. So I have a less than common coin. WOW! I'll send it to the online database folks so they can photograph it. There was a lot of discussion about the use of coins in lesson plans for particular subjects and grade levels. A number of the students had already used coins as part of their lesson plans. Some were very extensive integrated plans using a single coin or grouping to address material in Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Science. Other plans were simpler such as the use of coins in a science project to familiarize students with the use of scales and balances. Overall the Seminar was a wonderful learning experience and one that I shall never forget. I believe that many of the teachers have formed life-long alliances and will continue to share information with the growing list of graduates. My thanks to the ANA, the other sponsors, and to all the wonderful teachers with whom I had the privilege of sharing this past holiday week.

ANA Coins in the Classroom Seminar Report Overview & Syllabus ANA Education Seminar Gail Baker, Director of Education directs this and other ANA Educational Programs Lane Brunner, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin is one of the two instructors. Lane has always been a coin collector with a keen interest in the history that surrounds the use of coinage. He is professor of pharmaceutics in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin. Lane teaches pharmacy undergraduate and graduate students in the basic principles of how drugs move in and out of the body. In addition, he also operates a nationally funded biomedical research laboratory, where the emphasis is on how hormones alter the way in which drugs are broken down in the body. Another area of the laboratory’s research is in how space flight affects how drugs work. On the numismatic side, he also has the privilege of teaching two coin collecting courses at UT-Austin. The two courses are targeted at both beginner and intermediate collectors who want to learn more about the role of coinage in history. (Biography captured from ANA classroom handout). Cathy Scaife, MA, Latin Teacher from Lexington Catholic High School, Lexington, KY is the other instructor. Cathy received her BA in Classical Studies from the College of William and Mary in 1981 and her MA in Latin from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983. She then taught Latin in the Austin public school system, and, with an award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, attended the American Academy in Rome before moving with her family to Lexington, KY in 1991. There she taught the Latin II class for the Distance Learning division of Kentucky Educational Television. In 1996, she began teaching Latin at Lexington Catholic High School. She became involved with Roman coins in 2001 when she first participated in a coin attribution program sponsored by Ancient Coins for Education (ACE). Last year ACE awarded Cathy the Harlan J. Berk Prize for Teacher Excellence for her efforts at integrating the study of coins into the classroom. She is married and has three smart and handsome sons. (Biography captured from ANA classroom handout), Chris Rower from Indialantic Elementary School in Palm Bay, FL is the class support rep. Course Objectives: During the course participants will: 1. Have fun and make new friends 2. Share information about current ways that participants are using coins as learning tools in an educational setting. 3. Develop new ways to enhance your lessons in History, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts using coins as educational tools. 4. Discuss ideas for developing outreach programs using coins as learning tools. 5. Go home with lots of stuff. Learning Objectives: During the course participants will learn: 1. how to use the numismatic resources of the ANA 2. of the programs available through the ANA to support classroom education. 3. about Internet numismatic educational resources. 4. new ways to use coins as learning tools in the classroom. 5. ways to be a numismatic educational evangelist. Middle School Teachers are the primary audience Non-Numismatists and Numismatists both attend Participants selected from across the country via application Contents Sunday Reception Monday What is Money? Traditional Forms of Money Presented by Lane Brunner. This is a presentation from his Numismatics courses at University of Texas, Austin Overview of Numismatics “Money: History in Your Hands” ANA Movie narrated by James Earl Jones Evolution of the US Silver Dollar Presented by Lane Brunner. This is a presentation from his Numismatics courses at University of Texas, Austin Tuesday Ancient Coins in Education Coins in Ancient Greece, Rome, and Byzantium Presented by Lane J. Brunner. This presentation is part of his course in Numismatics at the University of Texas, Austin. ANA Ancient Coin Project Presentation Presented by Cathy Scaife. She uses this presentation with her students ANA Coins Form & Function – Art in Your Pocket Presentation Presented by Cathy Scaife. She uses this presentation with her students Currency in Iraq Presented by Cathy Scaife. She uses this presentation with her students Links the ancient practice of Damnatio Memoriae with events in Iraq, such as the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s statues and currency. Precipitates discussions on Looting of Baghdad Museum, Images on Coins/Currency, Nationalism Buying Power Presented by Cathy Scaife. She uses this presentation with her students. Ancients Attribution Preparation (cleaning) and Attribution Ancient Coins for Education Coins Students cleaned and attributed three ancients. The coins and materials used are those provided for classroom use by ACE. Both static and online databases were used in the attribution process Wednesday Lesson Plan & Activities Review Making a Bulla Activities from Coin Catalogs Twenty Dollar Shopping Challenge Roman Coin Labeling Worksheets Coins Amidst Crises: Money in Times of War and Political Upheaval Coin words Crossword Puzzle Creation Designing Dollars Lesson Plan Features of a 4th Century A.D. Roman Coin Worksheet Dramatic Coins Lesson Plan Lucky Coin Making Money Madness The Myths About Money Quarter Shrinking Thoughts for Your Penny Time is Money Money Before Money was Money Brainteasers for the Masses Student Presented Lessons Ancient Coins Lesson Plans – Jerry Scoppa Plans for NY State Curriculum for Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, Art, Science, and Technology. Plans and adaptations to the Ancient Coins in Education Plans provided by Jerry Scoppa. Plans are copyrighted to prevent publication for sale. They may be used or adapted for classroom work. Contact info: Jerry Scoppa jscoppa@palmac.k12.ny.us . Plans/Worksheets include: Coin observation Geography of Coins Historical Fiction Writing History of the Ruler Overview document with curriculum citations Project Choice and Grading (9 projects) Roman Coin Attribution Roman Coin Design Roman Coin Math Roman History TImeline Roman vs. Modern Coin Comparison Social Studies Student Project Selection/Status (6 projects) Writing a News Article ANA Medal Research Project – Art OConnell Using an ANA medal with a member's name engraved as the kickoff point to do research identifying the person and telling about their life. Both online and print sources of information are required. Student Handouts Publications Bank Note Reporter BEP Celator Coin Prices Coin Values Coin World Coinage Coins Littleton How to Collect Coins Littleton How to Collect US Paper Money Numismatic News Numismatist Red Book US Mint World Coin News Coins ANA grouping of World Coins ANA Tokens & Medal ANA US coin samples (43 Lincoln, Buffalo Nickel, War Nickel) Ancient Coins for Education – 3 ancients Littleton – US Coins (Indian Head Cent, Liberty Nickel, Buffalo Nickel) Supplies Magnifier ANA Movie “Money: History in Your Hand” Memberships ANA Trial Membership – 6 months Review The Seminar was outstanding. All of the ANA personnel involved were extremely knowledgeable and well prepared. Gail Baker, Director of Education, led the instructional team and was excellent at quickly forming our diverse group of teachers into a friendly, sharing, interactive group of learners. Lane Brunner brought he extensive love and knowledge of Numismatics to the class, along with his polished classroom presentation skills. Cathy Scaife demonstrated a love and skill for using ancient coins in the classroom that certainly warrants ACE’s Harlan J. Berk Prize for Teacher Excellence awarded to her last year. As you can see from the syllabus, the ANA and a number of Numismatic Companies have provided us with not only lesson plans that revolve around the use of coins, but also the materials and resources to implement and improve upon these plans. We should have no trouble adapting the plans to our classrooms and creating new and more extensive plans as our own expertise increases. The ANA is creating a list-serve “network” to allow teachers who have attended Coins in the Classroom to continue to share ideas, lesson plans, and other resources. To aid us in having access to resources, the ANA has given each student a six-month membership. This will allow full use of the ANA Library and research facilities. The Seminar provided a broad-brush education on Money and Numismatics enabling those participants who were not Numismatists to quickly understand the basics of coins, collecting, Numismatic terminology, and the minting processes. An informative presentation about the origins of money and the history of coins provided useful information to even the experienced collectors in the group. A vast array of coins and currencies was made available for us to inspect during the lessons. This helped each of us to better understand the discussions about design, metals, and the minting processes. Emphasis was placed on using the coins to reflect the history of their times. Discussions about things like resource management during the Second World War, accompanied by steel cents and silver nickels are sure to get the attention of any student. We simulated an Ancient Coin classroom lesson by having each student clean and attribute 3 ancient Roman coins. It was an interesting experience. One of my coins is still being soaked. The other two were “processed” enough to be attributable. One of my coins, a Diocleation from 295-299 was not present in the CD or online photo databases. So I have a less than common coin. WOW! I’ll send it to the online database folks so they can photograph it. There was a lot of discussion about the use of coins in lesson plans for particular subjects and grade levels. A number of the students had already used coins as part of their lesson plans. Some were very extensive integrated plans using a single coin or grouping to address material in Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Science. Other plans were simpler such as the use of coins in a science project to familiarize students with the use of scales and balances. Overall the Seminar was a wonderful learning experience and one that I shall never forget. I believe that many of the teachers have formed life-long alliances and will continue to share information with the growing list of graduates. My thanks to the ANA, the other sponsors, and to all the wonderful teachers with whom I had the privilege of sharing this past holiday week.