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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Now we have planchets made of bronze, brass, and wood.
Most interesting.
I hate these vanilla 59's.
They are very difficult to attribute.
doug
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Could it be 481 48 + J7. The loop 2 looks similar. DEVLEC, is there any doubling at the bottom of the 9?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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..but it arrived with that squarish piece missing and now showing an exposed piece of "something" inside that cent.
so was the missing piece in the package?
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Sadly,..it was not in the package. It was roughly taped without protection to the interior of a card. It would have been fine if it had been in a 2x2 or plastic slip. I think that the seller picked at the piece after seeing something there. Good News..Bad News... The bad side is the small piece is gone.. The good news is that "if" it had been complete as this pic shows,..I would never have known about the strange lamination going on underneath as the coin would have looked like this last pic.... So I'm still a happy camper with this one..  |
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Could it be 481 48 + J7. The loop 2 looks similar. DEVLEC, is there any doubling at the bottom of the 9? Thanks Phil..That could be the perfect match..  I do think that there is something going on with the 9.. More pics later..
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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What an incredibly interesting find! A great surprise to find something so interesting was hidden beneath the piece of missing lamination. In 1859 when this penny was minted, who can imagine the working conditions within The Royal Mint but it certainly woukd be classified as primative compared to modern standards. Sawdust covered dirt floors, wooden work benches.....? |
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Canada
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okiecoiner feels that there are 9 of them out there..
As there were ~ 9 million 59's..and this might be one in a million..
Now Jim's example explains about a circular crack from leaf 12 over to leaf 13.. Does that mean that it could represent yet another interesting lamination (a la.. okiecoiner's series ...  )..) ..or maybe close to what I have here..? That might be a fun PC59-481 to add here and compare to..
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Time for SPP to step in now...with his opinion on this wacky cent..
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
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 One very interesting coin which will mystify even the experts. But I think Okiecoiner may have the answer.
Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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But I think Okiecoiner may have the answer. Okiecoiner is the best of resource person..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice photos of the details, DEVLEC. I can see the circular crack Dr. Haxby refers to in the photos of the lamination area in your first post. The crack comes out of leaf 12 and goes to the tip of leaf 13. Could the missing piece have gotten stuck to the tape that was holding the coin. I imagine you've already checked that. Just thought I'd ask in case you haven't.
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I imagine you've already checked that.. Thanks Phil,.. for the added Dr.Haxby info..and yes I checked very carefully for the missing piece. I also contacted the seller and asked him (by chance) to also have a close look..but I knew that that was next to impossible for such a small piece..and the very sloppy taping of this cent. It's still a cool coin to have to help fill in some of the on-goings of the mint processes way back then..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A very cool coin! And as you said, perhaps even more interesting with the piece gone.
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