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Canada
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I am not familiar with the P.E.I cent but I bough this one and the Observe is like totally flipped then the reverse of the coin. Was it made this way?
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Canada
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This is the normal way to find it. It is much much tougher to find it with medal axis.
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United States
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 , tristen1230! US coins are coin reverse (flip on 9-3 axis), most others are medal reverse (flip on 12-6 axis). I suspect yours is medal reverse, rather than rotated. I don't have one handy to confirm. Edited by biggfredd
01/22/2012 10:05 am
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Canada
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Hi all. My P.E.I 1871 is flip 9-3 axis. Struck at the Heaton Mint in Birmingham. Reverse is upsidedown compared to all my other Canada large cents.
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United States
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see if you can find yours on ebay and compare orientation. |
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Canada
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> This is the normal way to find it. It is much much tougher to find it with medal axis.
So, it actually exists as a medal axis?
CCN doesn't list it
Charlton thinks the two axis are equally common
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Canada
1984 Posts |
Not sure why Charlton lists it that way. I have read in the past that some experts have seen specimens with medal axis.
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 United States
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As other have said, the PEI cent was struck by Heaton. The obverse was struck from 1871 Jamaican halfpenny dies. The reverse was struck from a new PEI die. The coins were probably supposed to be medal alignment, but like many other Heaton issues, the business strike cents ended up in coinage alignment. At least some of the specimen cents were struck in medal alignment. It is my opinion that any circulated PEI cents in medal alignment are actually impaired specimen coins.
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Canada
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I thought I would rehash this topic as I was trying to get my hands on the Medal Axis version of the 1871 PEI Cent. Apparently it is difficult to find an example; However, I am curious why the Charlton Catalogue has the coinage Die Axis valued much higher than the impossible to find Medal Axis? In fact the price for the Coinage Axis has more than doubled in the last three years, while the Medal Axis remains the same. Does anyone know if this is a misprint or what percentage of the population consists of the Medal Axis version of this coin?
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Mine tristen1230 you flip like an American coin...
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Posted 01/22/2012 01:35 am
