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Bedrock of the Community
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Crikey, all these years I thought there were only 5!  |
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I thought there were only 5! Me too. Can we get a link to your source? Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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Topic bookmarked.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Great post! Bookmarked as well.
Thanks!!
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Forum Dad
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Can someone check this out for me before I add it to the coinfacts section? 5 or 6?
TIA.
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I found these references... David W Lange's "The Complete Guide to Lincoln Cents" states on page 83 that genuine coins "were coined from at least six obverse dies". That is footnoted with a reference to P. Martin's "Authenticating the Lincoln Cent" published by the ANA Authentication Bureau. Photos of the genuine dies are not provided. Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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This Post shows why this forum is so valuable .... Thank you for posting!
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@Go-Rebels, Not sure if it matters, but you have labeled the 6 dies 1 through 6, but your photo names number them differently. Is there any generally accepted numbering system for these six dies?
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Forum Dad
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I noticed that too NSS. I was going to check that out before I posted them officially to the site but haven't gotten around it. If someone else wanted to do that, and maybe post some references, it wouldn't break my heart.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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@Go-Rebels, Not sure if it matters, but you have labeled the 6 dies 1 through 6, but your photo names number them differently. Is there any generally accepted numbering system for these six dies? Sorry, my numbering was not done with any intent to be consistent, meaning I pulled the coins from Heritage in a random fashion, labeling them 1-6 on my hard drive then tried to organize them in the order you see here. I have never seen another source for this study so I know of no other labeling/ordering by anyone else. I've read Lange's book from cover to cover many times but have never found an obverse die with a different mm position than the six I've posted. There may be another mm position that is very rare that I've never seen or another die that is different in an area outside that of the date/mm, but I've never seen one. I hope I only started the body of knowledge on this special coin... |
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I took your six photos, and sized them equally, and put them all in one graphic.  ps - I found it very difficult to differentiate between the two in the rightmost (3rd) column. Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks for the pics (!) and I agree. In fact, compared to the SVDB, the 14-D die pairs are all remarkably consistent.
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I found it very difficult to differentiate between the two in the rightmost (3rd) column. Agree. The lower one is just slightly rotated ccw compared to the one above. |
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I still refer to this page from time to time!
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