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Love the die clash! I hope I don't catch the Vicky bug...
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Thanks very much, it is a very nice coin indeed. I was saying wow for about 5 minutes with loupe in hand. There are plenty of die cracks and the right side of the Queens portrait on the reverse clash shows a double clash.     |
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The obverse legend is doubled or repunched. All dots are chopped, in a modern coin I would call MD, but the serifs are doubled and the doubling seems consistent. Need some help here Don.     |
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The obverse legend is doubled or repunched  But I am not the expert on these and I cannot remember who is, so maybe they might chime in.(SPP)or (papeldog) ? Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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Normally I'm not a big fan of clash marks, but this is spectacular! You'll find getting nice examples of the 1862 Nova Scotia cent (most of the 1862 mintage was from dies dated 1861) and the New Brunswick 1/2 cent (struck and issued by mistake) to be something of a challenge....
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04/13/2016 01:03 am
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Normally I'm not a big fan of clash marks, but this is spectacular! Wow. Thanks Mr. Haxby. This is a special coin. |
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Canada
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Don that's a really nice coin, loving the die clash, one of nicest one's I've seen. Nice score. Now you are truly hooked lol.
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Beautiful clash... I have not studied this series at all, but the upper serifs on the R of VICTORIA certainly looks like a doubled punch... maybe bosox can chime in on the obverse
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Don, the provincial coins do have some beautiful clashes. You have seen my NFLD 1-cent coin with clashes? https://goccf.com/t/88712"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Excellent double clash there SPP on that Newfoundland Cent. I have been looking at ebay for the provincial series and there are many full cents and Half Cents with single, double and sometimes triple clash marks. The die cracks snake across some coins. In good grades, these can command a premium. Great varieties and errors. |
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I was fortunate to find Jack Griffin's Newfoundland and British North America Die Varieties of Cents and Half Cents 1861 to 1936. Monograph 4. Small Rosebud Gr-804a R of REG and F of FD are repunched. It looks like a narrow date. 8 and 6 closer; 6 and 1 closer. Die cracks are not mentioned. |
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I have had a copy of Griffin's mono 4 for years and haven't opened it in 8 mos. Good book. Be careful if you get the Charlton reprint of Griffin's mono 1 on Vicky varieties. When Charlton put the pub together after Jack's death, they put the wrong photos on many of the Griffin number. You CAN NOT use Mono1 phtos as any kind of an ID ... the verbage and numbers are correct ... it's just that the wrong fotos were married to the descriptions and numbers.
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Thanks for that info Okie.
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Posted 04/12/2016 9:00 pm
WOW if that's the coin you START a new collection with... dang!
