"Days Of".. Vicky 5 Cent Pieces...

Here are my 1899! Today 3 different varieties.

#1 We will call it 1899 Bar normal 9's Look carefully at the bow and also look at the die clash just below DEI











#2 Small 9's











#3 Normal 9's I put the Rev. twice just to show more of the shine. I do have a hard time to photograph these silver coins














Enjoy

MG

Devlec, it is a Photo. I know I can do better.

Now those are very pretty 99's from MG ..and now 47P7.

47P7 ..I see that you can also produce colourful darker ones.
..and definitely from a good digital camera.

MG seems to have a way to get super details from ~100 kbs pics. I don't understand how they come to us so crisp and sharp..
You can actually see the fine luster across the whole gem coin.. Could it be because of the 2 sheets of plastic and the full sun, that causes mine to look a bit dazzled at times?

Would be nice to see more pics from other 5 cent collectors ..

D, I noticed you are also into 1859s and DR. H?

47P7...I'm using the Nikon..because my wife graciously lets me "borrow" it for the coins. My Kodak Brownie just wasn't cutting it when it comes to quality coin pics.

Yes Bill (wish he was back here) has drawn me to the "dark side" of large cent collecting and I'm having fun with the different aspects and varieties of the 59's and other years.

Jack Griffin and Dr.H and Bill and Rob ..and quite a few others have poured many years of work into the large cents...for us.

It also gets me somewhat away from all of my shiny (as Bill calls them ) large cents, plus Rob's books are a joy to read and study with..


Thanks MG for showing varieties that I've never seen before..

Here we go as only one more day remains after these..

First the narrow 00's







Wide OO's





There "might" be a little repunching in the last wide O and also in the 1,..but I'm not sure..

The mint reported 36 obverse and 19 reverse dies used in 1900. ..so maybe a few more 'unknowns' are still out there..



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Hey Devlec, I love the one cent Vickys as well. Someone should do a "Days of large cent Vickys"

For now here is my narrow 00's. I'll post my round 00's tomorrow.

Thanks for all of the coins that we are seeing here today.
Some really special ones coming in by you guys today..

My feeling is that cents and 5 cent pieces were easy enough to put away without making too much of a dent in your $$$.

If you put a vicky 50 cents piece on the side from way back then ( think of the depression also ),.. you were taking a huge piece of your earnings out of the loop. Only the few wealthy collectors could afford to do that I would guess.

Probably a lot easier on all account to collect cents and 5 cents than the other higher denominations..