Mystery Colonial Coin: identify the auction lot.

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• Placid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭

  July 21, 2003 1:42PM

  Bowers & Merena, 11/15/88 Lot 3447?

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• jadecoin Posts: 422

  July 21, 2003 1:47PM

  placid, lot 3447 was a silver farthing. The coin imaged above is a copper halfpenny. For you effort, we will buy you a drink at lunch...but no soup for you!

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• foodude Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭

  July 21, 2003 2:10PM

  B&M, Norweb Part III, Lot 3460
  
  (I thought I replied to this already, but I'm not sure it posted the first time???)

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• dorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭

  July 21, 2003 8:09PM

  ms-64? RED???
  
  K S

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• jadecoin Posts: 422

  July 22, 2003 2:14AM

  B&M, Norweb Part III, Lot 3460
  
  Sorry fudude, that is not the lot.
  
  Here's a clue for everyone: note the large die break under the bust. Compare that to the images in the catalog.
  
  

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• dorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭

  July 22, 2003 5:48AM

  dude, is your digi-pic crappy, or is that coin cleaned & ugly?
  
  K S

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• foodude Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭

  July 22, 2003 8:56AM

  B&M, Norweb Part III, Lot 3459 or Lot 3461; both were struck from the same die. It looks like it is the former because the pic in the catalog for the latter has a spot in the left field of the reverese (lower quadrant). I don't see that spot in your pic.
  
  Therefore, Lot 3459.
  

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• jadecoin Posts: 422

  July 22, 2003 9:56PM

  fudude, good guesses....but no cigar. Note the progression of the die break on our coin (it is a later die state). Also, our coin has some die breaks on the reverse which do not show well in the scanned images.
  
  dude, is your digi-pic crappy, or is that coin cleaned & ugly?
  
  Dorkkarl, "yes" my images are crappy and "yes" that coin is cleaned and ugly. Although PCGS slabbed this coin as MS-64 RD, the coin is a cleaned AU. Rub and other evidence of circulation abounds. PCGS is so clueless about the grading of colonials that I can only imagine that they throw darts at a grading dart board when slabbing colonials.
  
  We have solicited the help of the resident forum expert on colonial coins, ColonialCoinUnion (singapore). I will post a new thread soon with some startling information.

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