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 Very nice find and an eye-pleasing example, too!
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Pillar of the Community
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Good eye to spot that! I would have easily missed that!
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Thanks for tanking a look guys. I should add there is no way my father knew about this , he was not into errors and verity's. I will be posting several over the next few days he had 4 albums mostly complete. Some decent early ones as well. Thanks again for the look see
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice find!  Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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Good find ... nice job matching markers for attribution! Congrats! Very cool! |
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Excellent find in a home collection! Nice die clash under the chin also (a 2-fer) |
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WTG "Dad" Another nice variety.
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One of my favorite varieties. I find it weird though since this is a Type III doubled die, meaning it was hubbed with two different working hubs that had different designs, in this case a "blunt 4" versus a "pointed 4". The weird part is I've never seen a "pointed 4" 1949 Cent! Admittedly I have not seen many P-mint 1949 Cents, so there may be a 1949 Pointed 4 variety.
If anyone has a Pointed 4 1949 Cent from any mint I'd be extremely interested in seeing it!
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All eleven of the fours from the 1940s cents are different designs. The three similar 1949-S DDOs apparently are a 1949 over a 194- from 1948 hubbing. There are lots of theories about why this happened, but don't appear to be any satisfactory answers. Mint production records for 1949 show that the San Francisco mint finished its 1949-S production early, shifted to minting foreign coins for the summer, and then briefly resumed cent production later in the year. One theory I have heard - and it's only a theory - is that San Francisco's 1949-S dies were either too worn to continue to use or had already been shipped back to Philadelphia and destroyed, necessitating additional dies to resume production. In this scenario, Philadelphia could have used an incomplete 1948 hub for the first hubbing and a 1949 hub for the second hubbing to create more dies. Why there are only three dies known, three different die alignments, only dies sent to San Francisco, and only 1949/194- of 1948, and why Philadelphia didn't just ship some of its old 1949 dies are unexplained, as far as I know. It's quite a fun mystery. The mint records that people have obtained by FOIA don't appear to explain it.  |
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Your Fathers coin collection is quite nice. |
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Fortcollins I would agree. I know my father he wasn't looking for errors and verity's he was trying to find the nicest coin in the best condition. He was a collector at a young age but did most of his collecting as an adult.
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Very nice! |
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I should say the doubling is on 194 of the date
Posted 03/21/2025 4:25 pm
