small letters: some coins and varieties may have Small Letters, Medium Letters, or Large Letters.
Small Motto: refers to a scarce 1864 Two Cents variety that has a small "IN GOD WE TRUST" on the obverse.
small letters Term referring to the size of the lettering of the date on a coin. (Use of this term implies that large or medium letters exist for that coin or series.) ...
359 1842 Small Letters. AU-58. Nicely defined with lustrous yellow gold surfaces, and only very minor abrasions. Perhaps lightly cleaned in the past. With a low mintage of 27,578 coins, this is a scarce issue.
1858 Small Letters MS-65 PCGS (PS)
Here is a very exciting coin! It is a flashy fully struck full gem example. This issue is really hard to find looking so nice. It has only the tiniest of marks...
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The "Small Letters" reverse is extremely rare - this appears to be a transitional design that was later used with the Seated Liberty design.
1839-O
178,976 ...
SL or S.L. - Small letters
SMS - Special Mint Set
T1 and T2 - Type one and Type two - (also expressed as Type I or T1 and Type II or T2) Used to denote a variation in the design on two coins with the same design.
1842-D Small Date, Small Letters
Mintage: 37,917
The first 37,917 half eagles struck in 1842 at the Dahlonega Mint were small date, small letters in design.
SL Short for small letters. slab Numismatic slang for the holder in which a coin is encapsulated by a grading service. The coin contained therein is said to be slabbed.
In small letters on either side of the medal is the caption "Capt. N. Howse 24 July 1900".
small letters and symbols were added to the reverses of these staters. The purpose of these little symbols, in a great variety of shapes and figures, has long been inconclusively debated.
Radiate head of Trajan right, with many small letters, illegible.
/awkward figure left, legend ...TRPOT - COS IIII [COS IIII was AD 101-2.]
/in exergue, S C with "S" highly irregular.
A complete date and variety set is possible and consists of only five issues: 1856, 1857, 1858 Small Letters, 1858 Large Letters and 1858/7. These coins are often collected in conjunction with the Indian Head series.
ROVELSTAD, 1968," are in small letters just beneath the bust. The reverse features the Winter Hexagon, a constellation of six stars. At the base of the Hexagon is the brightest star in the heavens, Sirius.
A 1796 coin with small date and small Letters (Bolender One, Two and Three)
A 1796 coin with small date and large Letters (Bolender Four and Six)
A 1796 coin with large date and large Letters (Bolender Five) ...
in small letters in the field beneath the figure of Liberty"the F. standing for FECIT, Latin for "He made it." Gobrecht was criticized as a "conceited German" and vilified in the local press.
average quality; (14) split grades; (15) minor variances such as, open 3 versus closed 3, or micro-mintmark versus regular mintmark, or tall date versus medium date versus small date, or large letters versus medium letters versus small letters--and ...
Alabama, Montgomery - $1 State of Alabama
No. 37034 - January 1, 1863 (Signed)
2nd Series (small letters)
Plate E
J. T. Paterson & Company - Augusta, Georgia
Criswell Alabama 2 ...
PCGS raves about pattern coins and provides a coin price guide for, say, Flying Eagle coin prices ($3,250 to $65,000 for an 1857 Small Letters coin, MS-60 to MS-67 grade).
Medium letters
Term referring to the size of the lettering on a coin. The use of this term implies that large or small letters exist for that coin or series.
Melt
Term for the intrinsic metal value of a coin.
Term referring to the size of the lettering of the date on a coin. (Use of this term implies that medium or small letters exist for that coin or series.)
Large Motto ...
The portrait is cut heavily with a slightly clumsy treatment of the eye. The legends are ragged with large and small letters combined with more of a 'wander' than an order.
Within the span of coinage, several rare varieties occur, the most famous of which is the 1797 with nine stars to the left of the obverse and seven on the right, and with small letters on the reverse.
The letter Ε may stand for Hemiobol and Τ for Trihemiobol. The signification of some of the small letters between which the larger ones are placed is doubtful. ΣΤΡ might stand for Stratus (Num. Zeit., x. 163 ff.).
The rarest variety is the 1797 dollar with 9 stars to Liberty's left, 7 to her right and small letters.
Originally, the design for the reverse was the same pattern as a French two-franc coin and had "United States of America" across the top of the reverse with his name "BRENNER" in small letters across the bottom.
SD Small Date SEGS Sovereign Enterprises Grading Service SF Small Fraction SL Small Letters SLANT5 SM or Sm Small SND Small Narrow Date SILVER PLUG A silver plug was addes at the Mint to some Flowing Hair coinage to ...
 See also: Reverse, Revers, Coin, Struck, Obverse
  
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