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Anyone have a picture of a gripped edge?

and does it go all the way around the coin or just sections?


I am looking at a 1797 half cent

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Definition please? I am not familiar with that term. Cheers, RickO
  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can just be sections, many are struck unevenly. IMHO.
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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Definition please? I am not familiar with that term. Cheers, RickO >>




    1797 two edge varieties;

    1797 Lettered Edge
    1797 Gripped Edge
    and plain edge Thanks for the correction
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Definition please? I am not familiar with that term. Cheers, RickO >>



    Round marks, much like punch marks, on the outside rim of a coin - rare on 1797 half cents, slightly more common on large cents of the same year.
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Definition please? I am not familiar with that term. Cheers, RickO >>




    1797 two edge varieties;

    1797 Lettered Edge
    1797 Gripped Edge >>



    I believe that plain edge would be the third.
  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 1797 gripped edge half cent is a very rare variety with I believe ten known. If anyone has one for sale, please PM me.

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500
    I got this in a pm - thanks

    If you have a Redbook handy look at the picture for the 1797 gripped edge large cent. The half cent edge should look similar and no it may not go all the way around. If you look closely at the grip marks you should see that they are alternating shapes something like [( )] [( )]


    I have a 2003 redbook, and the small picture looks to me like it is a series of incuse dots


    does the alternating shapes make incuse dots?


    if the coin is worn to below AG3, will anything be seen?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you very much... did not know about that. Cheers, RickO
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is a gripped edge on an 1814 copper token I have. I believe this is a little different
    pattern than on the 1797.
    image
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭


    << <i>This is a gripped edge on an 1814 copper token I have. I believe this is a little different
    pattern than on the 1797.
    image >>



    thats way cool, thanks for the pictorial, as the descriptions just were not cutting it image
    image

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