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1885 Newfoundland 1 Cent Surprise

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I was learning how to use my new microscope and lo and behold I "found" this, don't know if others have seen this before but it's a first for me.
== E/E in ONE
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 Posted 10/28/2015  12:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fourmack to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well spotted E/E I don't even have an 1885 so I cannot check mine
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put up a pic both sides of the whole coin as there maybe something else
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Here's obverse and reverse; apologies but I'm still learning how to use this $35 microscope; but the fun I'm having is worth it for what I've "discovered"
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Enjoy and if you need anything else let me know.
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Nice coin techwriter, I looked at ours and don't see the E/E on it.
Where did you get a $35.00 microscope if you don't mind?
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 Posted 10/28/2015  09:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add techwriter to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Found it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Micr...usb+2.0


Also at Walmart and others also. So far the only con I have found is cannot raise scope high enough to obtain larger field of viewing. Otherwise for what I wanted to do it works okay.
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What is going on at the back of the Queens head ?
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trout1105 not sure about Queen's head but here are a few enlargements:
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Hope these help. Let us know what you think.
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Been doing some 'trolling' looking for this E/E and found four of them for sale; also found others without the E/E. Got to wondering if the E/E were produced by the one set of dies discarded by The Royal Mint; just conjecture on my part. There are no records as to how many die sets were actually employed by the Mint for the 1885 1 cent coins.
I keep 'trolling'.
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I got a small USB microscope with 200x magnification off Amazon as well, cheapest one I could find came to a total of $23... but I also signed up for an Amazon credit card at the time which gave me an instant $15 off so I got it for a whole $8. Then when the card came in the mail I immediately cut it up and discarded it as I never had any intention of using it. Oh yeah, stickin' it to the man!!
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Sort of an update on the 1885 Newfoundland Large Cent with the E/E in ONE on the reverse, I went searching on ebay and found:
1. with E/E - 17; 3 ICCS graded; 1 PCGS graded; 1 ICCS but could not see reverse; and NO mention of E/E on any
2. without E/E - 2

Wonder if that means the E/E is the rule and not the exception and the non E/E is scarcer?

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Since you are examining NFLD varieties, are you aware of this publication techwriter?

https://goccf.com/t/212630
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SPP, thanks for the tip; logged in and ordered the CD; should make great reading. Appreciate it.
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"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

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Update: if you like Newfoundland coins and especially varieties you NEED the CD. Received mine last week and have already LEARNED a lot; have discussed a few things with Barry and also sent him some pictures and he's sent me a few of his (regarding the E/E I posted).

== Knowledge is power == and this CD will increase yours.


P.S. not much researching right now; "lost" my numismatic lab for the holidays; lab is our "holiday room".
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Good to know. Looks like I know what my Xmas gift will be (or birthday).
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