1882 H Large Cent Question

Does this help? Not in my charlton.

Yours looks like it to me. Might be a small premium. Couldn't find one on ebay.
Another pic on this link.

http://www.canadiancoin.com/varieties/BR_Page3.asp

The H/H mintmark for Heaton is normal for 1882. I will quote from Jack Griffin's book (Griffin was the Grandad of all the Vicky variety numismatists that would follow). As I have as well, he looked at thousands and thousands of 1882's and he has in writing, in his paragraph before the 1882 section: "There are supposed to be some 1882H cents without the small H under the normal H, but I have never found one, although some only show a slight hint of the small H". The Heaton mint may have modified the Reverse master to clean up the H, as were all the old 1876 dies. Just like the Obverse used old 1876 dies to make the 1881 and initial 1882 Obv dies with full serifs on the N's by repunching, they may have done it to the mintmark on the Reverse as well to clean it up and used the wrong font.

This is another example to show that you can't believe everything in the CoinsandCanada website. The varieties and errors there are posted by ordinary collectors and they can name it or describe it any way they want, including scarcity and/or value. The CaC site is a very good reference to be used only in conjunction with other research material. The site is riff with mistakes and false info.

So, no, the only 1882 that may have a small premium is a coin with no trace of H/H. Yours is just like the rest.

Thanks for the great information. I learned something new today! Makes sense why you don't see any posted for sale H over H.

It should be remembered that repunchings of letters or digits are by no means unique to dies. It can and did happen in matrices. If it happened in a matrix and was not corrected later, then it would be carried over to every die that ultimately traced to that matrix. That is what happened with the H mintmark in the 1882H cent reverse matrix. That the double H is easier or harder to see on some coins is referable to the amount of polishing the die received in the workup or the amount of wear the die had received at the point the coin was struck from it.

The photo on C&C is so bad you can't tell what it is. As for Fefimo's, there is something there but it doesn't resemble an H, vertically or horizontally. Try and form an H from those 2 lines, can't do it. Looks more like clash or toolmarks.

I didn't mention in my previous post that on the 1882H cent the mintmark is a large over small H (as Bill/Okie has stated) and not just a double-punched large H. In any case the principle is still the same.