1858 Canadian Large cent with Die Breaks

Smittys

Any listing on these
From rim down across hair below ear
also rim to leaves on rev

bosox

This variety has been recognized for quite a while. Zoell catalogued it in the 1960's.

In my recent book on 1858 cents, I catalogued it as a marriage of obverse die OB2 and reverse die RB1. This die marriage makes up about 6% of all 1858 cents based on the statistical random sampling I did for the book. The later obverse die state, with the neat die chip in DEI, occurs on about 40% of this die marriage, or about 2.4% of the entire 1858 mintage.

It's a nice coin.

ajaan

Pretty decent grade also.

bosox

Looks pretty original. I'll go somewhere between VF30 and EF40, but leaning towards the lower.

BCNumismatics

Terry,
That is one extremely nice find that you have got there.The Canadian 1858 1c. coin never turns up at all.I've seen an 1858 5c. coin though.

It is the 1859 1c. coin that turns up a lot.

The Charlton catalogue lists a lot of the varieties that have never been listed in Krause,including the extremely rare Canadian brass 1c. coin.

I do collect Canadian,including provincial coins,as Canada is part of the British Commonwealth anyway.

Aidan.

olmanjon

Nice coin Smitty. You didn't call me! Any one know where to get a copy of the Zoell book? I understand that is the book to have for canadian collectors.

olmanjon

Smitty I just checked out the 1858 large cent that I bought from you and it also has the die break on the obverse but not on the reverse.

BCNumismatics

John,
Can you please post up some photos of your Canadian 1858 1c. coin?

Aidan.

olmanjon

I have a new scanner but have not had the time to install it yet. This is the best I could get from the old scanner. Olmanjon

bidask

tough date in high grade