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Colombia 5c With Wildly Repunched Date

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 Posted 04/04/2009  02:37 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add KurtS to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Here's a fun coin I found at the show.
Apparently for Colombia in the 50s-70s, such wild repunchings were more common than not. Still, it's a very entertaining piece because not only were the digits repunched, but they used several different punch styles! Here's a breakdown of the photo below:

The 1 digit
was punched with a large, sans-serif numeral over a shorter, serif numeral--check out the flare on the base of the underlying 1!

The 9 digit was punched at least 3 times! There's evidence of a digit east, then an underlying 9 with a flatter bottom stroke was finished with a 9 where the stroke curls upward. At least 2 digit styles again.

On the 7, there's a straight downstroke underneath a more curved 7 digit. Any ideas why the coin field is depressed around this digit?

The 0 is a bit lower, but at least it's completely on the die!
I've seen a few coins where several digits run off the edge.
There are traces of a second 0 NW of the top digit.

Do you suppose the mint in Bogota was very concerned about the date on these coins?
But thank you Colombia for making repunched dates so intriguing!


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Posts like these make me wish my coin collection wasn't so crap That's a great find I have only one coin of this type, a 1963. I've attached photos. What do you think it is, Kurt?

You can see something at the bottom of the 1, of the 9, and of course the connections between 1 and 9 (the line ends in the loop of the 9, what is visible in the last photo), 9 and 6.

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DL, lol...you also have some nice coins after all.
On your 1963, I see that too--the 1 and 9 are repunched slightly south, and I also see the bottom curves of maybe 96 halfway up in 196--plus there's a straight mark inside the top loops of both 9 and 6. That's a cool find too!
I'm going to the show again today, so I'll see if there any more...
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Thanks I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't posted yours.

Maybe you can get one like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Double-error-co...or_W0QQitemZ390041202812QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item390041202812&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:1|293:1|294:50
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That's a really good one! I especially like the upside-down 1.
I found two more (different ones) today...I'll post pics later
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Yes, great Liberty!
I have to admit, I don't understand Colombia's practices--Mexico's rpds and overdates are subtle by comparison.
Do you suppose the dot above the 5 is the trace of a prior digit? I don't know why a 1 would be punched there, but after all...this is Colombia.
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