1859 Cent MS-62 R & B. Look Closely. Is This A Doubled 9 In The Date?

If you mean page 287 of the 2011 Charlton, then look again, the vine at leaf two has a clean break that has not been repaired.

Post enlargements of leaf 9, 11 and 12.

It's hard to find a '59 WITHOUT some doubling in the date. The coins were struck using the matrix's from the 1858's to make the dies. The dies came out with just the 185 numerals there and the 9's were all hand-punched into the die. Since it took two 2-4 whacks with the hammer and punch to finish any of the dies to the depth needed and they were not done singly all the way through; the guy doing the work had a hard time making each whack on top of the partially done one. My understanding is that before each whack, the planchet was softened(annealed) and the punch hardened(chilled) to get the impression as as deep as possible. So, yes, your coin is doubled, but then so were the 9 million+ others somewhere. The doublings with the most offset are usually worth a premium, and those with the most value had the fewest number of coins struck before the die broke or cracked too bad.

That's a beautiful coin yontan!


Okiecoiner is right about that. Uncirculated coins will often show doubling where none is evident on a lower grade coin. I believe your coin is Haxby obverse 32 and reverse G3.

That's a nice 62.
ICCS usually crosses over pretty strong with the other TPGs (as long as it doesn't have defects ICCS tends to overlook that other TPGs will details-grade)

I'd wager a silver dime that crosses over to NGC/PCGS as a 63, with PCGS being a bit looser on their Canadian grading standards.