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Pillar of the Community
United States
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  This 1795 Half Cent (Cohen 6a) is not in a super grade, but it has an interesting story to tell about practices in the early days of the first U.S. mint. I'll be back with the story tomorrow if no one else picks up on it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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going to say F-12 Looks like the date was double stamped.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm at F-12. It looks like it was struck on a foreign planchet. I can't think of any contemorary US issue that would make the designs underneath the main design.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm going to say Fine+. The over strike seems to be that of a large cent. The digits are too big for the Half Cent. Very interesting coin. Of course a beauty! |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Was it struck on a "Talbot, Allum & Lee " token?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Struck on a cut-down large cent? I'll say F-15 for grade.
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Bedrock of the Community
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F12. I have no idea what it was over struck with but its really cool looking
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United States
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F 12. It looks to be struck over a large cent as on the reverse you can see, E CENT.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree F-12. Most interesting.
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Pillar of the Community
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Was it struck on a "Talbot, Allum & Lee " token?  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Interesting! F-12? Nice coin  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Congratulations to those who spotted that this coin was struck of a Talbot, Allum & Lee token! That's what it is. In 1795 the mint got a fairly large number of these tokens, rolled them out and cut them down to make Half Cents. This piece shows more the TAL undertype than most, and it has made the rounds of a couple major auctions for that reason. The EAC grade on this coin is VG despite the rim bump at 3k on the reverse. Here is a group of photos that show the undertype on the coin and the corresponding spots on a TAL Cent.  Here is a full view of a Talbot, Allum & Lee token.   Edited by billjones
04/27/2016 11:16 am
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Now that is a cool coin! |
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Posted 04/26/2016 12:11 pm
