Hey guys, this is the first Canadian large cent from the 1800's I've owned/purchased just recently from
ebay on somewhat of a hunch noticing the broken "O" in Victoria amongst other little things, it was a straight forward
ebay ad with nothing stating it was special by any means, just that it was an "Old Victorian 1881 large cent" so I threw a bid in and won it for $8.50 shipping included.
When I received it I finally got the chance to look at it up close and under the scope, and I was hoping you guys could take a look at these photos and let me know what it is I'm seeing.
Photos of the Leaves on the Reverse seem to show either some sort of Doubling or something else but since I have no idea how exactly they made the coins back then. It does have the "Double" last "1" in the date that Coins and Canada has but to me it doesn't really strike me as doubling but it could be.




Here are some photos of the letting on the Obverse of the coin, with Red arrows pointing to the areas in question.
On the "N" in "CANADA" and "REGINA" there seems to be again, maybe some sort of doubling?.


Here is the broken "O" in Victoria" along with the last "A" that seems to be missing its serif.


And here is the last "A" in "GRATIA" with some weird blob of metal above the serif on the right.

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