An example of a "downgrade" from a much better coin. Someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse on my first example below, which helped me pay off other coins at the time. This current example came from a good EAC friend of mine. This one has a few marks but great color and a bold Comet.

This is the second example of this variety I've owned; the first was a nice VG that came from an EAC buddy. This present example came from the Goldberg sale in January 2010 and is currently in a PCGS VF30 holder. I found it at EAC 2010 sitting in Chris McCawley's case. I traded him a nice 1838 N15 and some cash for it. A choice EAC 20 with a bold comet, and one of the highlights of EAC 2010 for me, coin-wise!

By far the toughest 1807, and one of the "famous four" varieties, the others all being much tougher (1803 large date, small fraction; 1795 Jefferson Head; 1794 Starred Reverse.) An EAC buddy of mine got two of these off eBay in the same auction (that's right - two!) He sold this one to me, which had the better detail of the two but has obverse hairlines on the portrait.

I bought this at a coin show in Cincinnati, Ohio many years back. This was my first overdate coin; I probably bought it more because of that than because it was a large cent. Very pretty and problem free. Much, much more common than the "Small 7/6" variety, which is a rarity-4+. (I can't afford one of those right now!)

Second scarcest 1807, next to the 1807/6 Small 7/6. I got this one from an EAC buddy - a much better than average specimen for the grade. This is the "mound at STA" variety, called this due to the die sinking in STA in STATES on the reverse.

Slightly scarce variety - much more so than the very common S-276. This was the last variety I needed for a complete 1807 collection. (I found this soon after getting the S-272.)

The most common variety of 1807, but a neat one because it comes in just about every conceivable die rotation. This specimen came from the January, 2006 Jules Reiver sale. The reverse is rotated about 170 degrees counter-clockwise! (In the Heritage photo, I rotated the reverse the way it is on the actual coin.) This variety is sometimes confused with S-275, but on S-276, the word LIBERTY is very close to the head, where on S-275 it is more distant. Heritage Photo