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1864 Two Cent Reverse Die Clash With Reverse Of Indian Head Cent?

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 Posted 06/20/2023  8:13 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add MintPenny to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi I purchased this from ebay and think I see a die clash but not the two listed on PCGS. I don't see the obverse clash for FS-1401 or on the reverse I can't make out the face (obverse) of the Indian Head, but I do see something and it looks like the wreath from the REVERSE of the Indian Head cent. I am stumped.

I would LOVE some help because my eyes are starting to see all kinds of things now :)
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 Posted 06/20/2023  8:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MintPenny to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
For the life of me I can't figure out what it's clashed with. Any ideas?
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 Posted 06/20/2023  8:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dearborn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree - I was thinking that the vertical bars of the shield, they are striped.
Then there is some sort of a scroll or something below the 'CENTS'
Hopefully somebody can provide an overlay - I wish I knew how to do it..
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Here's a Clash Overlay of a Two Cent coin. The coin you have seems to have some rotation of the clash marks, but this should give you an idea of what to look for.

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 Posted 06/20/2023  11:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westcoin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
with Yokozuna, a rotated reverse that clashed with a normal 2 cent reverse, not the Indian Head cent clash.

The IHC clash is known as die pairing FL-16B and is also a light repunched date best seen West on 1 and 4, the obverse is plagued with deep die scratches:
-North from denticles below 1, between 86 and under the 4.
-In the field between 3rd and 4th vertical stripe.
-In field below arrow shaft at left.

The Reverse doesn't have a full serif on the top of the D in UNITED but a partial outline only.
There is also heavy bold outlining of UNITED S -- CA, and the word CENTS
There is a bold die crack that passes through the field under CENTS.
Later die states are heavily cracked as shown in the illustration below.
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That is the coin showing the areas to look for.

It is also involved with a different obverse pre clashing that is very similar and has the die crack but no clashing yet. This one is known as die pairing FL-2B
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And even before that pairing there is FL-2N:1864-Two-Cent-Reverse-Die-Clash-With-Reverse-Of-Indian-Head-Cent?

Last here is a photo taken that shows the clash with the Indian Head cent pretty well, had to shoot at a severe angle and play with lighting to get it to show up on camera, this coin is in a PCGS AU58 slab.
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EDIT: It is NOT the FS-1401 the IHC/Clash is FS-1901, the FS-1401 has a clash off center around the top of the reverse side of the wreath and the top of the Motto on the obverse, (both sides showing clashed denticles almost like a tank track across the coin) that is a tough one to find, I still don't have one in my collection, found a couple already noted on the holder but they were asking way more than I would pay for one, $600 to over $1K. PCGS Coinfacts has a good example:
https://www.PCGS.com/coinfacts/coin...01-bn/569394

I actually had 2 of the IHC clash Two Cent coins before they were discovered/announced by Bill Fivaz, I just never thought that they would have been clashed by another denomination, and never looked that close.

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After looking through my database of 2 Cent die pairings I believe yours is FL-57AS and the clash is rotated around 20 degrees CCW. See if the cracks on the reverse especially match up with the ones below. 57AS also has heavy die clashing that shows up below CENTS quite nicely.

First coin is a nice PCGS MS65BN but an early die state so the cracks are not as prevalent, but the clashing shows up really well:
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The second coin is the same die pairing but from a quite worn and slightly corroded one that shows the die cracks nicely but not so much on the clashing.
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Between the two of them I think they are an exact match to your coin as to die pairing.

As usual - click on any of my photos to see them in a new window much larger.
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Westcoin - you've gone over and above here, again. It's much, much appreciated.
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I am impressed not only with this wonderful coin, but also the extensive knowledge provided by Westcoin! Kudos my man!
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This is exactly why I love this hobby and especially this coin community. So much knowledge and the willingness to teach others is very impressive. Many thanks Yokozuna and westcoin. I have a lot to study and learn.
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Indeed an excellent presentation!
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I'd like to learn more about my favorite coin: the Two Cent Piece. What books / reference materials are there that I can acquire to learn more. I have The Authoritative Reference On Two Cent Coins by Kevin Flynn, but I'd like additional reference books to read.

Thank anyone for any suggestions.
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Nice coin and nice clash!
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I'd like to learn more about my favorite coin: the Two Cent Piece. What books / reference materials are there that I can acquire to learn more. I have The Authoritative Reference On Two Cent Coins by Kevin Flynn, but I'd like additional reference books to read.


There really aren't many others out there. I'm working on a book on Small Motto Proofs and patterns. Don't know if it will ever get completed.

Frank Leone has the best two books on the series in my opinion.

His first is: "Longacre's Two Cent Piece die varieties and errors" it was published in a sprial plastic comb binding in December 1991

His next and final book is "Longacre's Two Cent Piece: 1864 Attribution Guide" Published in a metal spiral bound book in 1997.

His plans were to create a book on each date and list all the die pairings, that was the impetus behind my own 2nd line collection. He never made the money from book sales and can't afford to finish them was the last word he mentioned to me many years ago. Sad.

The final book is by Myron Kliman and has no photos only some line drawing, everything in it has largely been superseded by Kevin and Frank's books.

Frank's books are long out of print and very expensive if you can find them. I do have extra copies but they would not be cheap at all. (Not a sales pitch, seriously it would take close to a half a grand for me to part with both books).

Kevin Flynn wrote a first book before his Authoritative book, which is cheap but adds nothing that isn't in the book you have already.

Frank did also put out a newsletter called the "2 Cent Times" in the early 1990's I have a complete set of them and am trying to find a person trustworthy to bind them for me into a hardbound book. Frank had a couple of copies last time we emailed, but no complete set. He also wrote a few columns in CONECA's Errorscope magazine detailing new die pairings. There have been a handful of articles written in magazines over the years but nothing new is added to what information is in Frank and Kevin's books, beyond the few Frank Leone article's in Errorscope.

If you really want copies of some of the various magazine articles, PM me privately and I'll see what I can gather up to send you. Most I have scanned as PDF files in my reference notes folder.

As you might have guessed I am pretty nuts myself over the Two Cent Piece and it has by far taken over most of my research and collecting habits over the past 3-4 decades. There was a time I was heavy into VAM dollars and lately I've gravitated towards Colonial and early American coinage, but since they are so expensive my next logical and so far really exciting and fun turn has been into British Provincial Tokens ie: Conder Tokens.

These I can get multiple 1790's coins and tokens in proof, proof like and uncirculated conditions, for a pittance of what a poor or about good 1793 large cent would cost.

While I still actively collect Two Cent Pieces (by die variety) I am finding after 35 years collecting them it's getting harder and harder to find examples I don't already have, though upgrades show up often, the cost has really risen on the higher end examples.

It's a great short collection that can be completed in short order in fairly high grade both business strikes and proofs, even adding all of the major varieties (One exception, is of course, the Small Motto Proof).
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