FSH @ cost: "One... WHAT?" (Risqué "E2U" alteration on reverse of 1852 Braided Hair large cent)
lordmarcovan
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OK, so this is a relatively recent purchase, but I've had a change of heart and decided it's a bit too Rated-R for my set, which I'll be toning down to PG-13 or so. 
I've got $28.60 in it. Anybody want it at my cost, with free shipping?
I'm vigorously shaking my piggybank to scrape up the moolah to make an offer on a groovy looking CircCam Trade dollar for my new Seated mini-type set.
So "Mike Hunt" must go!
(Following text copied and pasted from my thread on the USCF.)
"One... WHAT?"
Risqué alteration on reverse of 1852 Braided Hair large cent
Obverse-reverse image (*WARNING*-uncensored)
Larger obverse image
Larger reverse image (*WARNING*-uncensored)
Host coin: 1852 Braided Hair large cent.
Obverse: unaltered.
Reverse: risqué alteration of "E" in "CENT" to a "U"; engraving incomplete.
Provenance: ex-"lotsofmotts", eBay, 7/22/2016.
Comments: It might have been the early Victorian era, but there was no shortage of raunch around. These "naughty" cent alterations were quite the cottage industry and are common enough today that you could probably complete a date set of Braided Hair cents with these risqué reverses. Maybe even a good bit of the middle-date Coronet Head cents, too.
This particular example has a better than average host coin but somewhat poorer than average (perhaps incomplete) carving. The incomplete nature of the carving on this one sort of demonstrates how they created these, however. Note the apparent strikethrough or planchet flaw in the right obverse field.
I've got $28.60 in it. Anybody want it at my cost, with free shipping?
I'm vigorously shaking my piggybank to scrape up the moolah to make an offer on a groovy looking CircCam Trade dollar for my new Seated mini-type set.
So "Mike Hunt" must go!
(Following text copied and pasted from my thread on the USCF.)
"One... WHAT?"
Risqué alteration on reverse of 1852 Braided Hair large cent
Obverse-reverse image (*WARNING*-uncensored)
Larger obverse image
Larger reverse image (*WARNING*-uncensored)
Host coin: 1852 Braided Hair large cent.
Obverse: unaltered.
Reverse: risqué alteration of "E" in "CENT" to a "U"; engraving incomplete.
Provenance: ex-"lotsofmotts", eBay, 7/22/2016.
Comments: It might have been the early Victorian era, but there was no shortage of raunch around. These "naughty" cent alterations were quite the cottage industry and are common enough today that you could probably complete a date set of Braided Hair cents with these risqué reverses. Maybe even a good bit of the middle-date Coronet Head cents, too.
This particular example has a better than average host coin but somewhat poorer than average (perhaps incomplete) carving. The incomplete nature of the carving on this one sort of demonstrates how they created these, however. Note the apparent strikethrough or planchet flaw in the right obverse field.
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