So There Is Three Varities Of The Icelandic 1939 1 Eyrir

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norseman012 Valued Member United States 357 Posts	Posted 09/05/2009 8:26 pm I got a package today of pre 1942 Icelandic 1 Eyrir's from a friend of mine in Iceland. He had instant messaged me last week and told me that he obtained a bunch of Eyrir's and asked if I wanted to see them and I said sure. I asked him if he had any 1937 Eyrir's and he said I'll just mail them to you because he had to go. Well I was so surprised to find Super nice 1939 1 Eyrir with the small 3. I have one already but was looking for a much nicer one that I can send out to get graded, I already have a graded large 3 over small 3. Then my eyes grew big when I saw another 39 eyrir with a large 3 but looked different then the one I have in the slab, Not trusting my eyes I grabbed my 16x loop and saw that the 3 didn't to have a small 3 under it. Holy poop I said to myself there is just a large 3. You see the Krause book and The currency of Iceland both list the 1939 1 Eyrir as having 2 varieties a large 3 and a small 3 and no large 3 over on top of a small 3, so I thought that the 3over3 was the large 3 and having seen about 10 or so of the 3/3 and only a couple of a small 3 variety. Well the 3 over 3 seems to be the common one of the three types and The plain large 3 seems to be the rarest of the three since I must have examend about 40 of the 39 Eyrir and just found the large 3 today. I don't know if either of the publishers know of this or not. Edited by norseman012 09/05/2009 10:01 pm Report this Post to the Staff

swamperbob Pillar of the Community United States 5362 Posts	Posted 09/05/2009 11:13 pm Nice Find Die punch variations are always interesting and need to be discovered or re-discovered periodically to keep people informed. Varieties like this seldom get listed in books like Krause - but I hope they do. The three varieties have a story to tell. Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 09/06/2009 12:14 am That's very interesting! And, if I compare the distances between the 3 and 9 between the large3/small3 and the large 3, the distances are different. I did an overlay which shows the distance for the "large 3" is closer, particularly the tail of the 9 (arrow) Report this Post to the Staff
norseman012 Valued Member United States 357 Posts	Posted 09/06/2009 12:47 am Thank you swamperbob I happen to know a gentlemen that does work on the world coin book at Krause publishing and after finding the plain large 3 today I told myself that I need to contact him about this. Thank you DVCollector for doing this comparison of the two coins. I did notice that the angle of the extreme far left points of the nine was at a different angle then the other. But from your comparison photo I see that the nine is also a bit larger. Do you think that maybe these two coins 3over3 and the large 3 could have come from the same die? Maybe the die was altered? the reason I ask that because Iceland has a 1938 2 aurar that has a 8 that was altered as the die wore down they are a normal 8, half filled 8, and a filled 8. Edited by norseman012 09/06/2009 12:59 am Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 09/06/2009 01:14 am I also wondered at no listing for a "large 3/small3" variety, and thought perhaps the "large 3" was re-tooled die. (correction) That's why I did the overlay, but since the 9 position is different, I'm guessing it would be very hard to re-work that. And look how raised parts of the small 3 are on the 3/3...could that be removed? Edited by DVCollector 09/06/2009 01:37 am Report this Post to the Staff
norseman012 Valued Member United States 357 Posts	Posted 09/06/2009 01:35 am They do list in both books of the large 3 and small 3 but no mention of the large 3 having a small 3 under it, and I would not know if they could rework the die maybe someone else here can shed some more light on this. Thanks again DVCollector for your help. Report this Post to the Staff
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