Strike Doubled Repunched Mint Mark
messydesk
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There was a thread a while back where I mentioned seeing coins with both strike doubling and repunched mint marks. This one crossed my desk last night, and it's a doozie! 1884-CC VAM 5 has a repunched CC, which you can see at the yellow arrows. This coin is also strongly strike doubled in this area, flattening the mint mark and letters DO on the left side, as indicated by the cyan arrows. I see coins all the time that someone asserts has a repunched mint mark, but the smashed doubling that is duplicated on other elements demonstrates that it's not.
John
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
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Neat. This is the sort of thing that made collecting fun in the 80's to early 90's before the marketing and registry sets took over.
Excellent post... and the pictures make the details perfectly clear. Thank you... Cheers, RickO
I love the photography!