Is anyone familiar with 2 cent pieces?....

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• Placid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 11:17AM

  Die crack maybe? Post the picture

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 11:19AM

  Hmmh...How to get apic up on here! I'll give it a whirl...

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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• Placid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 11:20AM

  Read here.

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 11:41AM

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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• remumc Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:04PM

  Ask Russ,
  
  Not only does he know 2 cent coins, he will also know how to coach you in posting the pictures!
  
  Regards,
  
  Wayne

  Regards,
  
  Wayne
  
  www.waynedriskillminiatures.com
  

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:16PM

  Welp, I gave it a shot. It's too distorted anyhow. Thanks for the help too. I have a $hitty scanner...
  
  Placid; It's not a die crack. It's like, imagine this, a carpenters square or inverted 'L' running from 9:00 to 12:00. It's a raised protrusion. This is about all I can say to describe it. It appears to have been part of the die engraving with the 'O'...strange but true!...

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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• Trooper Posts: 1,450 ✭

  November 10, 2003 12:18PM

  Here's a great and cheap book that's on Ebay for you.
  Excellent for 2 cent peices and the price is right.
  Tom
  
  Ebay item number 3041229551 2 cents

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• Placid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:26PM

  Look at this picture and see if it looks that one.

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:28PM

  Thanks Trooper...Just bought one!......

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:33PM

  No Placid...This one's at 9:00 exactly like this... -O ... and it raised, as if purposely when they engraved the die...

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:37PM

  Geez, that's less than half what I paid for my book.
  
  razorface1027,
  
  It could be a die clash. There are quite a number of them on the Two Cent pieces. Could also be, as Placid said, a die crack. These coins have zillions with die cracks. Matter of fact, it's kind of hard to find circulation strikes without them.
  
  Here's one with lots of die cracks:
  
  
  
  I really like these coins, but I'm just on the very beginning of learning about them.
  
  Russ, NCNE

  eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:44PM

  See man, that ticks me off! What do you use to get such great pics. I have this $hitful scanner, and I can barely operate it, let alone get pics like you dudes....I'm familiar with die cracks; however, this seems to be, as I stated in the previous thread, to be a full attachment to the 'O' and RAISED, as if part of the 'O'...It's weird...

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:49PM

  
  
  << <i>to be a full attachment to the 'O' and RAISED, as if part of the 'O'...It's weird.. >>
  
  
  
  Die cracks are raised. When there's a crack in the die, the metal flows in to it and creates a raised spot on the coin in the shape of the crack. Yours may simply be a crack adjacent to the O that happens to be about the same depth as the letter, thus appearing as if it is part of it. Could also be a clashed die.
  
  Russ, NCNE

  eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 12:51PM

  Man! What would I do w/o ya Russ...Thanks for the info. Are die clashes...RARE?

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 1:07PM

  
  
  << <i>Are die clashes...RARE? >>
  
  
  
  Not really. Dramatic, well defined ones are, but everyday weak little ones can be found quite frequently.
  
  Russ, NCNE

  eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC

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• DMWJR Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 1:07PM

  
  Frank Leone had over 100 1864 die varieties with pictures on his site, but now I can't find them. Maybe someone else knows where they are.
  
  
  
  It could be a die gouge as well.

  Doug

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• Placid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 1:32PM

  
  
  << <i>Frank Leone had over 100 1864 die varieties with pictures on his site, but now I can't find them. Maybe someone else knows where they are.
  
  It could be a die gouge as well. >>
  
  
  
  
  This site?

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• DMWJR Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 1:41PM

  
  That's it! He moved it from another server. My previous link was broken. Thanks!
  
  Razor, you will find this site informative.

  Doug

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• WACoinGuy Posts: 1,110

  November 10, 2003 1:47PM

  Thanks for the link to the auction -- I had checked this book out several months ago from the ANA Library and really liked it. For under $9 with shipping, this was too good a deal to pass up...

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 8:55PM

  Thanks folks! Welp, it appears to fit the criteria of a Leone 41-AH. Further investigation pending...

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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• razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭

  November 17, 2003 6:46AM

  Welp, after further investigation upon receipt of the book I purchased( the link was attached to this thread), the "oddity" on my 2 cent'er doesn't show in this catalogue; however, it is a 1994 copyright and possibly one that Flynn has yet to find...I dunno!... "Back to the ole drawing board!"...

  What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?

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