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.

ACK, no HTML????

 

 

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

Any chance of another set going around?

 

I would love to get in on this.

 

-Bobby

 

 

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.

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.

 

 

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.