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bosox Pillar of the Community United States 1371 Posts	Posted 09/01/2024 4:56 pm I have owned this coin for twenty years but re-imaged it recently. I posted this one on another site, but thought I would post it here also for the '59 buffs. Canada 1859 cent in PCGS and ICCS MS-65 Red, PCGS pop 4/1. It is nearly 100% red, which is a miracle after 165 years. A soft strike and a few marks, but still one of the very best around. Haxby's website describes a progressively collapsing obverse die for this one, with which I agree, and which likely caused the soft strike in the center of the obverse. This coin shows a slightly more advanced obverse die state then those described by Haxby. 1859 is a common date. PCGS has graded 428 Canada cents dated 1859, but graded only 17 of them as red, most of those at MS-64 and below. I am not sure how many ICCS has graded in 65 or higher, but in their 2013 pop report it was only 20 and I suspect most of those are not fully red. http://www.victoriancent.com 2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Literary Award, 2025 Guy Potter Literary Award, 2022 Paul Fiocca Award, & 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award. Life Member of RCNA. Report this Post to the Staff

mcshilling Pillar of the Community Canada 9475 Posts	Posted 09/01/2024 7:28 pm Eye candy is an under statement , man that is one nice coin, congrats Report this Post to the Staff
echidna Pillar of the Community Australia 605 Posts	Posted 09/01/2024 9:43 pm very nice Watch your top knot Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 193736 Posts	Posted 09/01/2024 10:30 pm Outstanding! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9894 Posts	Posted 09/01/2024 10:52 pm Beautiful coin! "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 77658 Posts	Posted 09/01/2024 11:31 pm Very nice coin! Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
Phil310 Pillar of the Community United States 1101 Posts	Posted 09/03/2024 09:25 am That is a beautiful 1859! I've seen quite a few 1859's that show striking weakness due to die collapse. I think that needs to be taken into account when grading the higher circulated grades. What might appear VF at first glance could be EF or in some extreme collapse cases AU. Report this Post to the Staff
Freespeech57 Pillar of the Community United States 666 Posts	Posted 09/03/2024 5:29 pm Beautiful coin! Report this Post to the Staff
Marv65 Bedrock of the Community United States 10601 Posts	Posted 09/03/2024 7:35 pm Wow! That is amazing! Report this Post to the Staff
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