Coins I Still Want to Collect
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Even though I sold my collection about nine months ago, I'd still love to own nice examples of the following:
Massachusetts Pine Tree Shilling, Large Planchet Noe-1 variety
Fugio, any variety as long as the "Mind Your Business" motto on the obverse is well struck and easy to read
1955 Doubled Die Obverse Lincoln Cent - I don't know why. I've just loved these since I was a kid.
I've been fortunate to own nice examples of each of these over the years and they are just fun!
Massachusetts Pine Tree Shilling, Large Planchet Noe-1 variety
Fugio, any variety as long as the "Mind Your Business" motto on the obverse is well struck and easy to read
1955 Doubled Die Obverse Lincoln Cent - I don't know why. I've just loved these since I was a kid.
I've been fortunate to own nice examples of each of these over the years and they are just fun!
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<< <i>Even though I sold my collection about nine months ago, I'd still love to own nice examples of the following:
Massachusetts Pine Tree Shilling, Large Planchet Noe-1 variety
Fugio, any variety as long as the "Mind Your Business" motto on the obverse is well struck and easy to read
1955 Doubled Die Obverse Lincoln Cent - I don't know why. I've just loved these since I was a kid.
I've been fortunate to own nice examples of each of these over the years and they are just fun!
I see the attraction to all of the above, as all are iconic US coins of great numismatic significance. These could be core selections for a small collection of such.
Pine Tree Shilling, Noe-1
This coin is sort of the poster child for the Massachusetts silver series because it is often well made with good centering and well executed dies. It is also somewhat common in a very relative sense (None of them are common or easy to find). The Pine Tree coins were among the third group of Massachusetts silver preceded by the NE, Willow Tree and Oak Tree series and succeeded by the Small Planchet Pine Tree Shillings.
Fugio Cent - These coins were a "last gasp" by the Articles of Confederation government to stabilize the small change system during the early days of The United States. The effort failed due to bribery, a shortage of capital on the part of the company that was picked to make coins and short weights which resulted in the coins trading as "coppers" (Whatever the market would bear.) instead of cents. A fair number of Mint State pieces are known from the Bank of New York hoard which was finally examined in the late 1940s.
The 1955 Doubled Die Cent - For the purists this coin is not an "error," but there was certainly a mistake in the preparation of the obverse die. In the preparation of working coin dies, a hub (positive image) is used to sink the features of the finished coin into the die (negative image). Normally this takes three blows into the die face. Each blow is followed by an annealing step in which the die is heated to re-soften it. Each of these blow must be exactly "dead on" or the result will be what you see here - a doubling of the devices. There are many examples of this in the United States coinage series, but this one is the most famous and one of the most dramatic.
The story was that this defective was in production after an estimated 20 or so thousand of these coins were struck. The defective coins were mixed with tens of thousands of other 1955 cents, and so the mint personnel decided not to bother with separating them. The coins were put into general circulation. Many of them were found in the New England area in the second half of the 1950s.
PCGS Registries
Box of 20
SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
(MLC knows this coin well
A chronic case of cannotpullthetriggeritis is affecting my ability to purchase the 55 DDO.
Any grade would be impressive.
<< <i>... iconic US coins of great numismatic significance. These could be core selections for a small collection of such. >>
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