Couple recent finds.....

[Bill Ladd]

I went back to the cellar hole we've been digging at after work . This time I took the Excel & bagged a couple goodies in all the iron junk. The coin is a poor looking Flying eagle cent...1857. It was so crusty I had to do a mini-electrolisis just to see what it was. The button is pretty cool... "Canadian Pacific Railway". That's a railroad I don't have in my collection, & certainly one "for the books" heh I also got an 1861 indian in rough shape & an 1871 in great shape I'll post seperate.....HH, Bill

 

[Dennis 2]

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[Bavaria Mike]

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[MikeW]

Nice finds Bill.Ive never found a flying eagle cent.Thats on my list though)

 

[Bill Ladd]

That one is mad UGLY uke: & of course an 1856 would have been better (Chunk 0 change!). Took me awhile to get my first....now that's my 4th I believe (others are more presentable)....only one I need for my coin folder is the '58 sm. date. HH, Bill

 

[SirLostAlot]

Just found my first one last weekend. Its a 58. Not sure how to tell if its a small date.

 

[Bill Ladd]

all's I know is that I have a coin folder of indian heads/flying eagles & there are 2 "holes" for the year '58. I have one filled & I thought it said something like, "Lg. date/sm. date". Maybe the red book may go over the difference? It's buried in my car someplace.....I'll look later.............

 

[MikeW]

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[Jackpine Savage]

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[Jackpine Savage]

The way you tell is to look at the letters A & M in America. If the bottom "leg" of the A touches the M then its the large letters variety.

Here's a link to a set I sold on eBay a while back.
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemWithCategory&item=8318361341
There's a piece of lint or something right where the letters happen to touch on the LL var but you get the Idea. (saw the prices were up on those so I got rid of a duplicate set. )

Tom