1881 H Vicky Cent, Double/Triple Re-Punched Letters On Obverse

You, John, have an 1881 Obv 1a in my opinion. In '81, they were using the 1876 Obv dies where the N's were single serif on the bottom left. They repunched the N's in many of the dies, sometimes very clumsily. Since there were so many 1876's minted, plus now for the '81's, many of the other letters had to be handpunched, as well due to die wear, especially the I's. There are many many 1881 Obv 1 dies that have all kinds or repunched letters and then there was MD on some of them as well. Some of the handpunches have a great deal of offset, like your I's and T's and C's.. If I had to guess, I would say that there are at least 50 different Obv varieties, if you include the Obv 1/1a's as well. The '81's, just by themselves, create a collecting specialty all alone.

John's is not the one on p 310. There was so much repunching in '81 and '82, it's hard to keep them separate.

Here is another, just of Victoria The coin on p310 is an Obv 1a/1. His is an Obv 1a. Hounddog's is right.

This thread is getting to contain a lot of misinformation.
There's no question this is the coin featured on page 310 of the 2011 Charlton right down to the die crack at the "T" in Victoria.
The original coin, my coin and Okie's coin are all coined from the same obverse die which is an Obverse "1" not a "1a".
Here are some more pictures that may show it better.

Cheers, Bill

Since I am waiting for my rear camera on my cellphone to be replaced I have nothing to take a good clear full image.

This is the best I could do for the obverse with my microscope, the color and hue of the coin are completely off so don't mind the color, for now, my microscope has auto-exposure stuck on while connected to my mac and with the LED lights it ruins the shot when taking closer to full coin photos.

I couldn't enlarge with my computer, so yes it's an Obv 1. When we wrote the 2011 and gave the short descriptions, we didn't designate the 1a/1 unless we were showing an example of that and how it diffetred from an Obv 1. I guess I need my eyes and computer checked. I can't enlarge or "pretty up" a photo.

All the pics are of the coin on pg 310. This punch doubling not double die. The fun part of this coin is that different font punches were used creating the huge offsets on some of the letters.

So to answer your question JohnWayne007, this is not the Coins Canada Double Die #2

Thank you Hounddog Bill for clarifying, I don't agree with it being a doubled die either, I classify re-punched letters and numbers as a completely separate variety from doubled dies.

For those who do not know the difference between doubled dies and being repunched...

Doubled die varieties occur during the creation of the obverse and reverse working dies through the hubbing process when the working punch is pressed against a blank working die more than once to get the best relief possible, if the second hubbing impression is not lined up correctly with the first hubbing impression it will leave a working die showing distinctive doubled letters, numbers, or details that will be transferred to every single coin that is struck with that working die until it is changed out for a new one.

Repunched letters and numbers are exactly that, letters or numbers that have manually been repunched by hand leaving large offsets or spreads between impressions and do not happen in the same manner as a doubled die even though they both create a similar outcome.

That is just my opinion.