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Large Cent Exonumia

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I received this from an ANA Summer Seminar instructor, it's a pressing from Daniel W. Holmes, Jr of one of his 1857 small date cents. Under magnification you can even see some of the engravers tool marks.

For those not familiar with this type of exonumia large cent collectors will make this type of pressing from their coins using aluminum foil and a notary public type of hand press.

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Interesting! Didn't even know people did that. On higher grade coins like this one, wouldn't a press on the back of the coin be damaging?

Thanks for sharing!
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Ditto, never heard of that. I guess, along w/a pic, you'd have a
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Congrats on your neat piece of exonumia; and from Dan Holmes Jr., very neat!
I have not heard of this being done.
How is the coin protected during the process I wonder?
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Ive done this with very fragile roman coins successfully. Easiest way was to set it on something like Playdoh, covered by foil, then put foil over it, another bit of playdoh and press down with a book over it. Coin comes out unharmed, deep imprint on the foil. You can also impress it with your fingers.

I was trying to make negatives of my nicer coins too, so I used oven baking clay and made a little die of sorts. Its nice becuase you see all coins as one colour all over.
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That is very cool! I have never seen this before.
Thanks for sharing :-)
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