Why did they strike this pattern?
MrEureka
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Is it a trial piece for a larger five cent piece?
Is it a trial piece for a ten cent piece?
Were they just screwin' around?
Any other theories?
More info here.
Is it a trial piece for a ten cent piece?
Were they just screwin' around?
Any other theories?
More info here.
Andy Lustig
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intelligently but it simply looks like a die was used in a press that
contained a larger planchett... it allows the creator to see the whole
coin and be able to hold the outside rim while gazing at the design
as a whole.
Perhaps the mint wanted to illustrate what reeding on a 5c piece would look like, but the smallest collar die with reeding larger than a nickel was the quarter collar.
They were made in sufficient quantities that I'd discount the "screwing around" theory.
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Perhaps the mint wanted to illustrate what reeding on a 5c piece would look like, but the smallest collar die with reeding larger than a nickel was the quarter collar.
Howard - Although the vast majority of these coins have plain edges, you make an interesting point.
Edited to say that the existence of J-562, the reeded edge Longacre aluminum five cent piece, seems to invalidate the hypothesis that J-625 and J-628 (the reeded edge 1868 nickels) were struck on larger planchets only because smaller reeded collar dies were unavailable.
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Another solution would have been to create a larger nickel five cent piece.
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Edited to add: Great minds . . . and apparently at the same time.
Actually, aluminum was no longer especially precious. A five cent piece containing exactly five cents worth of aluminum would have been the same size as the nickel pieces, only lighter.
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