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oasis Valued Member Australia 138 Posts	Posted 08/10/2013 06:08 am I recently picked up a batch of large cents off ebay, this 1896 piece stood out as the V in Victoria extends up into the denticles and down into the beads. There's also some flaring on the I in Regina which extends up to the denticles. Unfortunately the coin has also been scratched up quite a bit but I always like picking up these old pieces with a bit of character to them! Report this Post to the Staff

tfred Pillar of the Community Canada 627 Posts	Posted 08/10/2013 08:32 am I love large cents as well. What you have are late stage die cracks extending from the denticle to the letters. A new die will produce a near perfect coin, but as production continues, small cracks appear in the dies and as a result it shows up on a coin as raised metal. As they continue to use the die, the crack spreads and get wider and deeper. Eventually the die is replaced with a new one. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 08/10/2013 10:49 am Excellent photos... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
artdio Pillar of the Community 1844 Posts	Posted 08/10/2013 11:52 am Very nice , also I see a small hat or knob on the E in DEI Report this Post to the Staff
DEVLEC Pillar of the Community Canada 3234 Posts	Posted 08/10/2013 12:24 pm Great big pics and lots going on.. I see something on the cheek going towards the eye..and the D in Canada has a bit extra too,.. Report this Post to the Staff
jkol2369 Pillar of the Community Canada 607 Posts	Posted 08/10/2013 4:07 pm Report this Post to the Staff
oasis Valued Member Australia 138 Posts	Posted 08/11/2013 05:47 am Thanks to all for the comments, there is definitely a little hat on the E in DEI and a bit tailing off the D in CANADA. The mark running back from the eye is another one of the scratches on the coin, these markings didn't turn out that well in the photos. All the scratches end with a pit in the coin, the best examples of this are the one running across the upper lip and ending on the chin and another just to the right of that. The close up photos were actually taken through my loupe and making sure I did enough shots to get a steady hand and the angle right! Report this Post to the Staff
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