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I am going to be posting a lot of pictures of earlier Canadian silver dollars in the next few days, and some very awesome halves too! Been getting the camera setup that Ray made me all situated and they are starting to turn out pretty awesome! Here is a great one... 1947 Silver Dollar, Pointed 7, Quad "HP"    |
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Very nice coin, love the HP nicely done on the pictures
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That's an outstanding example of the triple HP!
If the halves are also of the King George VI era, there's a multitude of different varieties. It's up to you but you'll find there's a variety reference thread for each specific year that you might post your photos on if you wish. One of us here is likely able to assist in identifying the actual variety as well.
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03/06/2016 9:25 pm
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Wildflower, it's a quadruple die... Take a look at that picture again... It's easiest to count it on the P
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Slightly off topic here but how did the HP get Doubled, than tripled, than Quaded... Was this in succession?
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Wildflower, it's a quadruple die... Take a look at that picture again... It's easiest to count it on the P
You're absolutely right! Four of them, all lined up in succession. |
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Ray set up a great camera system for me... That little Nikon objective gets in there pretty dang close! Here is a picture of it...  |
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Nice set up! You certainly won't have to deal with reflections from your ceiling lights. LOL!
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Slightly off topic here but how did the HP get Doubled, than tripled, than Quaded... Was this in succession?
The " HP" is part of the obverse die, not hand-punched. There are other quadrupled HPs, presumably all the result of the exact same die. But I'd also like to understand how it came to be, for that particular die. The era of King George VI is very interesting in terms of anomalies. Clearly the mint was not striving for perfection in circulated coinage but considering WW2 and other events occurring during that period of time, it's understandable. Edited by wildflowerAB
03/06/2016 10:30 pm
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Great close-up photo of the quad HP, thanks.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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so the story goes tht the mint was just coming out of WWII and Canada (GB) was having issues with India at the time... so for whatever reasons, they didn't produce the dies for the 1948 dollars and that is why they have the maple leaf varieties. now I imagine during this time, there may have been a lack of quality control in die productions... the two quads I have are almost identical and you can clearly see quadrupling throughout the rest of the letters on the reverse. I'll post both HP close ups so you can compare...
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Awesome pictures of the Quad HP.
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Thanks Don! I'm learning a lot about Canadian Dollars and halves real quick! My local coin store guy does not deal in foreign coins and when these came in the other day he got them at a great deal. He wasn't trying to be dishonest but neither him or the seller knew what they were doing... Now he wants me to turn around and sell them off on ebay or wherever... But man did that cause a steep learning curve! And you Canadians don't make it too easy... But there is a really nice Whitman book out there that covers it all in pretty good detail and my microscope and camera setup really helps out a ton |
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I see 5 punches on the P.  |
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I saw it too... but in all honesty, I think it is just 4... if you try counting the cerifs on the bottom of the P or try counting the H's it really only comes out to four... you can see the quadrupling in the letters around the Reverse (head side) also but I only see four...
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Posted 03/06/2016 9:24 pm
