1949s

[Steven]

I'm thinking RPM#1 but would like other opinions on this one. I think this one may be LEDS or EMDS.

[CCC]

I do beleive it is. Is the shadow on the bottom covering up part of the second S? It won't be very much.. I just got Dr. Wiles Second Edition RPM book in the mail. Your my first comfirmed using it.


CCC

[Wheat Cents]

I would say yes..

[Steven]

I was pretty sure that it was an RPM#1 but I went to coppercoins site and the EDS shows a reverse die crack, fairly large, on the right wheat. This one doesn't have at all. My thoughts were that shortly after the example on coppercoins a reverse die change must have been made possibly due to a broken die or too damaged to use further. Coneca usually lists die changes I think I should probably check there as well.

Guess I should have checked there earlier they do have a reverse die change listed at MDS, Stage B.

[CCC]

In reference to your coin Steven. What is UVC-324?


CCC

[Steven]

CCC,
I guess I should have asked someone by now what those designations are in reference to but have never found the need to know until now. Maybe someone with the knowledge of those will come along and give us both the answer.
Anyway one more top 100 to my list.

[Wheat Cents]

CCC

UVC stands for Universal Variety Code. They began to be issued sequentially throughout the Lincoln Cent date range 1909 to present. However as earlier date varieties were found ... naturally the sequential listing thing went out the window. UVC numbers along with the DMR , Die Marriage Registry for Obv and Rev pairings within each date / mintmark, along with the stages allow one to identify Lincoln Cents as what I like to refer to them as : "Varieties within Varieties".

Wiles' book ( page iv ) indicates UVC was a system Coneca adopted. Might someone know from where or who ? CONE ?

[CCC]

There it is Wheat Cents, page iv. Who is Cone?

CCC

[Brad]

Here is a pic of mine if that helps.

[Wheat Cents]

CONE was a coin club, and I was wondering if memebers of it or for that matter NECA started the Universal Variety Code (UVC) system

CONE stands for : Collectors Of Numismatic Errors which was founded in 1963.

NECA stands for : Numismatic Error Collectors of America was strated about the same time as CONE. In 1983 CONE and NECA merged to become CONECA.

CONECA is combination of the two coin clubs names.

There is more history about this on the CONECA site...

http://conecaonline.org/content/merger.html

[Wheat Cents]

Steven.. I dug one of mine out too. Here is another 49S RPM-001. (This forum has been good for me, if for no other reason... It has encouraged me to begin taking pics of my Lincoln varieties )