I never could see paying so much and coming home with 1 cent, so I only came up with these 2 over all my years. One was in a junk lot (the scraped one). I'd appreciate the die pairs for these. I'll have some 1859 9/8's to check in another post.
First one has a blank area on the reverse. There are die cracks at leaves 11 and 15, which must be tied in with the blank part.
The obverse has die cracks at the C of VIC and the R of REG. The C of CAN is double-cut, and the D is deformed at the bottom.
5 errors all together in photo 3; DP-C in CAN, faint die crack from point of bust and through the beads to V I and C, a thick crack in the C, plugged die T, and a peeling lamination.
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My other loser coin has decent details but has been badly scraped. There are die cracks at leaves 5-7-10-15.
On the obverse, there's a die crack beside the V, and another on the second A of GRATIA. There's also a faint die crack that starts at the R of GRATIA and runs down to the N in CANADA, that looks to be the result of die clash-there are impressed grooves on the obverse and raised ridges on the reverse.
Posted 09/05/2020 2:27 pm
