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

Thank you for the offer Okiecoiner,

I may have to take you up on that at some point after my modern catalogue is finished as I plan to extend it with a second edition covering repunched varieties on the Vicky cents and some of the older George V cents, more so just educating readers on the differences between doubled dies and repunched varieties since the Vicky cents are fairly documented already.

Glad I was surfing the old topics this week. I by pure luck happened to see one of these couple days ago on ebay and scooped it up.

It's hard to tell from the photo and the wear on the coin, but I think that yours is the one that we put on p.310 however, there were lots of different '81's that had any number of the letters doubled. Plus there was mechanical/machine doubling on the coins, from when the dies were loose in the holders. Look closely at the "V" in Victoria. If it is doubled along the left and bottom, then it's the one on p.310. Also look closely at the "T" in Victoria, as it is full of offsets L, R, and bottom. We priced that coin at $55 in VG, which yours doesn't get that high.

You can see, from the original post, that there was lots of discussions on what the coin(s) actually were, as there were so many different doubling varieties for the 1881. There were 5 of us who wrote the 2011 Charlton variety site, 4 of whom post on this site, and we were restricted on how many pages we could take (80). The section on the 1881's (9 pages) was second only to the space that we made for the 1859 and we had to eliminate probably 6-7 more pages for the '81's. And Houndog Bill who was an avid variety collector and always joined in on the CCRS discussions, both before and after the 2011 Charlton (which we write in 2010) and added clarity to some of our descriptions. He is and was a font of knowledge on all the Vicky varieties.