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Numisma Pillar of the Community United States 4963 Posts	Posted 10/16/2015 01:41 am PR-66 maybe? Great acquisition. What did you pay for it? Report this Post to the Staff
thusdayclub Valued Member Poland 263 Posts	Posted 10/16/2015 07:22 am Details of obverse are really awesome, but what do you think, guys, about lower part of wreath? Maybe it is picture fault, but they looks quite weak compared to other very high details. Also color looks little weird, but like I said previously, it might be fault of picture. How it looks in hand? What worry me a little, is denticles on the coin's reverse. Sorry for sceptical tone, of course I hope you bought a very nice proof FEC. BTW - hello again guys and girls:) Edited by thusdayclub 10/16/2015 07:23 am Report this Post to the Staff
dsfreeworld Pillar of the Community United States 4337 Posts	Posted 10/16/2015 07:49 am its certainly MSPL in appearance. Were they polishing the dies on this series at strike time? This could be the proof dies and you've got one of the first business strikes off the pairing. nice pick up Report this Post to the Staff
OLCoins Valued Member United States 397 Posts	Posted 10/18/2015 04:20 am Snow PR-4 dies seem to match. Most notably the doubling (Closed E in ONE hubbed over an Open E in ONE.) So I guess the next question would be, were these proof dies also used for business strikes? Would that have been something that regularly happened during this era of the US mint? Edited by OLCoins 10/18/2015 04:23 am Report this Post to the Staff
jdiablo30 Pillar of the Community United States 946 Posts	Posted 10/18/2015 08:28 am I have read before that since the dies were extremely difficult and expensive to make. They reused them whenever possible. If this isn't a proof cent then it looks like it was struck from proof dies. We need some more information about what was going on with the mint in 1858. Report this Post to the Staff
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