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1812 E Austria - Habsburg 1 Kreutzer.    |
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Its a shame about the scratch on the eagle's beak, but the obverse die crack is quite interesting.   |
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1658 Commonwealth crown. There may have been only one set of dies for this issue and based on the surviving examples, the die must have cracked early in its use as most show this crack through the portrait of Oliver Cromwell and across the entire bottom of the coin. That's a nice coin jgenn. I wonder how you speculate that there were only one set of dies. Are there records about dies that still exist since the 1650's? If so, that's amazing that information is available. |
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I wonder how you speculate that there were only one set of dies. Are there records about dies that still exist since the 1650's? If so, that's amazing that information is available. I could have been more clear. Since most examples that I have seen show the die crack, it seems likely that there was just one die. This reference mentions that: Quote:
...the objects identified as Simon's Cromwell crown matrices are actually dies, the very dies that struck the original Cromwell crown pieces attributed to Simon. and Quote:
The obverse 'matrix' carries the identical pronounced die break present in some stage of its development on all surviving coins of the issue attributed to Simon. So it sounds like the actual dies are in The Royal Mint Museum. Edited by jgenn
03/01/2019 11:15 am
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Nice Die Crack Dorado!
Errers and Varietys.
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Nice additions!  |
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Thanks for that info jgenn. Its very interesting reading.
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1981 Cuba. Veinte y cinco centavos.    |
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1981 Cuba. Veinte y cinco centavos. Very nice! |
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1884 Republica Argentina. Dos centavos.    |
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1884 Republica Argentina. Dos centavos. Excellent! |
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1926 Australian Half Penny  Edited by zookeeperz
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Very nice! |
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Very nice Die Crack zeekeeperz! I am wondering if it's a Retained Cud? Errers and Varietys.
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some nice die cracks on this 1649 silver guilder from Holland, one of my first coins   |
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