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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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For the Iceland 1939 1 Eyrir, there are 3 varieties: the large 3, small 3 and the large/small 3. Thanks to a friend, I now have all 3 varieties, including the dramatic large/small repunching pictured below.  Thanks Tony!   No arrows or overlays required on this one! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow! Very nice, DV! Now I'm going to have to pull out the Iceland binder...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Thanks! I'll post photos of the large and small 3 later. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That would be great for comparisons.. thanks  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Your Very Welcome For The Coins. I'm Very Happy You Like Them, The large 3 is a very tough one to get I must have looked threw at least 100 or more 39 1 Eyrir's and only found 3 of the large type. The small 3 and the large 3 over small 3 is just about egual in the amount I have found with the 3/3 being the most common. so as far as I can tell its pretty much a one in a 40 percent chance of getting the large 3, If your really lucky. By the way GREAT PICTURE.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Thanks again Tony--the large 3 sounds very scarce, wow! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
I've taken a few more images of the 1939 1 Eyrir varieties: First the large 3:  The small 3:  The large/small 3  Here is an overlay of the large 3 and small 3 photos. I don't think either die was involved in the large/small 3 variety. The dark arrows show common points of reference.  Finally, here is an animation showing the relationship between the small 3 digit to the small/large 3 variety. The small 3 relates very closely to the underlying small 3 in the small/large variety (arrows). However, the position of the 9 changes slightly. From what I can see, these 2 dies don't relate by digit position or markers such as polish lines.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great pictures and animation, DV.
So.. by the amount of position difference between the large and small digits in the overlay, the Large 3 over Small 3 has to be a 3rd die? Did these digits get punched by hand? I wonder if there are other variations (of both the small 3 and 3/3) out there with slight position differences.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Thanks xshift! Yes, the L3/S3 looks like a third die to me, since the L3 above doesn't correspond to the digits on that coin. And, before that small 3 was re-punched with the large 3 digit, it differs (slightly) from the small 3 coin above. So that makes 4 dies in all--does that make sense? From what I can see, the last 2 digits on the above coins were punched after the die was hubbed. Edited by DVCollector
01/18/2010 2:07 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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The animation of the two 1 eyrir is great....I loved it...great work DV. I was a little unclear about what you said about a fourth die. Do you think the small 3 die had a another small 3 die? Another words...Copenhagen mint produced two small 3 dies and one of them was re-punched with a large 3. As to your statement about the re-punching after the die was made is right.Many if not all of the coin dies produced by Copenhagen for icelandic coins did not have the last two digits on them and I think that they stored these unfinished dies for later use.with all the icelandic coin I looked threw the 19 in the year was always the same and the last two digits are not. some example's can be seen in the 37,38,40 1 eyrir and 1937 25 Aurar
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Tony, thank you...I'm glad I could study these coins! Honestly, it was just a guess about 2 different small 3 dies because it appeared the 9 was spaced further away on the L/S. However, I could easily make an error--given how little these dates are. I've also noticed that Sweden and Finland added the last 2 digits on many 20th century coins into the 1920s. |
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Iceland
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Sweet find, Itīs cool to see the animation.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes--thanks to norseman012 for these varieties! Edited by DVCollector
02/17/2010 2:15 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Hmmmmmm ... okey dokey, guess I'll be paying more attention to Icelandic coins now!
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Posted 01/03/2010 01:40 am
