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Pillar of the Community
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    Appears to be a partial letter under the C. Maybe E or R ? (Two different examples shown). Watch your top knot
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very interesting.  Errers and Varietys.
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Perhaps they placed more importance on the spelling of of VICTORIA.
And went to some extra effort to fix the wrong letter.
Hence the area inside the C looks rough.
Other legend blunders were let go.
There are quite a few such errors in this series which are quite blatant.
Watch your top knot
Edited by echidna
04/20/2024 06:40 am
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Looks to be a 'K' under that 'C'
'VIKTORIA'?
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A very interesting discovery.
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Pillar of the Community
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Is that a die crack in REG? And another on the I of VIC? Also what is going on with the base of the 1? An old die perhaps that was refurbished by a mint worker?
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 Another example. Hi Neal I can't see any die cracks. Re the 1 in 1861, there is something extra which looks like a partial number 1 at the base of the 1. Watch your top knot
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I'd read the under-letter as "E" rather than "K", but there's very little practical difference between E, K and R in this context.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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As for the possibility of it being a K as Centinal suggested; it got me thinking; did the mint maintain a punch set with all 26 letters or did they only get letter punches made with the letters used? Are there any 1860 era British (or empire) coins that have words or abbreviations with the letter K in them and more to the point of the same size as the letters on a sovereign?
Also it looks like the wrong letter is under the correct letter so the mistake and correction was done before the die was ever used so it wasn't a repair done to a used worn die to extend its life (unless it was done as a repair using the wrong letter and then the worker then fixed his mistake which would make it a C over an R or E over a C)
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Hi Neal
Regarding the original error I'd agree that it must have occurred on the original dies in London.
Off the top of my head I can't think of another contemporary coin with a K in the legend, that the London mint might have been working on.
So K is almost impossible therefore as they would not have had a K punch with the correct font at hand.
It has to be an E or R and it looks more like an E to me.
Watch your top knot
Edited by echidna
09/26/2024 02:05 am
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