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Bedrock of the Community
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Doubling is clear, nice photography. Others will have more input.
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There is definitely something going on. This has to be a known veriety, right? Calling all Canadian collectors!  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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We (our 4 man collector cadre)included only a few of the 1888 varieties in the 65th edition (2011)of Charlton that covered the Vicky cant varieties in the back. I will quote from the entry on p324 that described an example with all 3 8's repunched: "All 1888 working dies displayed repunched middle numeral 8's, inherited from the matrices. The engravers often repunched one, two, or three of the numeral 8's in the Reverse working dies, creating many variations of the repunched 1888 dates." ALL final 8's were handpunched into the "188" three-digit working dies, so there is also a great variation of the spacing between the middle 8 and the last 8. After looking at thousands of these, I found that a great many had the numeral "1" also repunched. 1888 was a large mintage year, so a great deal of repunching was done to extend the life of the working dies, so they had complete, readable dates. There is a member on this site who is doing/has done a thorough study on the 1888's ... I forget how many different dies/repunches that he found, as well as some Obverse differences. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Your first photo is a provincial cent (1858-1859). Do you have the correct obverse photo for the 1888?
It's a very nice re-punch and good photos! In my opinion it is triple punched on the first 8 and probably the 1 also. The 1 would only show up on a high grade coin.
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First if you look closely at L7 there may or may not be a small D/C, also this die will develop a cir D/C threw the top of DEI in later die states.
The obverse when shown will have a D/C between the C & A in Canada. The D in DEI will be missing the bottom serif, all other letters will be normal.
This is a known variety at least to me it is.
Beautiful coin and very nice close-up pictures.
There are a number of 1888 dies with all 8's re-punched and others with the complete date re-punched.
Cheers, Bill
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Thanks to all of you. okiecoiner, as usual I defer to your knowledge. I had the reference, just didn't read it carefully. Phil310 Yes, I have the correct photo, but I have tried twice to edit the posting, remove the provincial cent and post the correct photo, but nothing seems to work. How do I get rid of the first photo and post the second? Bill
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