1881-H Canada Cent, Tripled "N" of "REGINA"
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This is one fun piece I have in my Canada inventory. It is surprisingly valuable.
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The tripled N is a nice coin to have as you can distinctly see all 3, maybe 4, strikes. However, it's only worth about double a normal one is. We put it into the 2011 Charlton in the back for Vicky large cent Varieties.
Since there may be hours, days, or weeks between the individual strikes, because the punch had to be (re)hardened and the die needed to be softened(annealed), I always thought that the floorworker at the mint had been having "liquid lunches". He sure couldn't hold the punch down where it was supposed to go. Since all '81's had to have the single serif N's repunched from the old1876 dies to make full serifs, there are any number '81's that you can easily see the overpunches, but none as visible TP'd one.
Nice, but not at all that rare,
just now I have at least 2 of them, I guess yours would grade EF?
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