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Pillar of the Community
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Yes, I didn't recognize it for what it was until the higher grade discovery coin.
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Has anyone checked for these? Must be a little tough to find?  |
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Canada
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Haven't found any yet :).
Haven't found any 1859 9/6s, TP9s, or single serif 1881s yet either :(
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Still waiting for someone else to find one. OWhOOOooooooooWHOOOOHOoooooo!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Well...i got my first 1859 TP9 #1 in EF...so I'm getting closer ;)
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Pillar of the Community
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No one with one of these?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Haven't seen one in over 300 1882s...Zonad...do you have two or three?
Interestingly, I now have 3 examples of 1882 doubling in REGINA only...the offset isn't huge..but its there...
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Known population of this variety is 5.
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I always look at every coin show and shop I visit... so far... no luck.
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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just awseome coin! I am missing the 1882 for my collection by the way......
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Even though only five have been found to date, I will be shocked if at least several hundred, if not a few thousand, are not out there. Again, I don't think the dies failed instantaneously.
There are a lot of 1882 cents out there. Let's say hypothetically 400 of these coins exist, out of the original mintage of 4 million. Statistically, the variety makes up 0.0001 of the mintage. Using the binomial probability distribution, the probability of a random sample of 1,000 cents dated 1882 missing this variety can be calculated at 90.5%. If 4,000 examples of this variety exist, a 1,000 coin sample still has a 36.8% chance of missing it.
Here is another way of looking at it. Let's say the mintage really is 5 coins. That is 0.00000125 of the 1882 mintage. If you look at 100,000 cents dated 1882, you still have an 88.2% chance of missing it.
If collectors have found 5 over the past year, then there are quite a few more out there.
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People have been hunting the 1881 single serif for much longer (8+ years), yet they fail to turn up. Maybe 10-12 known at last count? (Bill would know, but he can no longer post here...)
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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True, and the 1881 mintage is lower. I'd still be surprised if there are not more out there. Could be a few dozen, or a hundred. On that one, I don't think there are thousands.
http://www.victoriancent.com2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Award Winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award Winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca Award Winner. Life Member of RCNA.
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Also, until the 2011 Charlton came out, very few people were looking for it.
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Posted 09/14/2011 08:36 am
