This Is one of the coolest 1-cent pattern pieces I ever saw!

mozeppa · February 27, 2008 10:19AM

Link to the coin....(not my coin)

BlindedByEgo · February 27, 2008 10:23AM

Smoe serious cool factor there. I like it!

Anybody tell us anything about the "holey cent"?

rgCoinGuy · February 27, 2008 10:27AM

Lord M, Lord M?

kryptonitecomics · February 27, 2008 10:30AM

I would so own that pattern......sweet

STONE · February 27, 2008 10:32AM

Definitely unique and different, but I wouldn't call it the collest

BlindedByEgo · February 27, 2008 10:33AM

<< Definitely unique and different, but I wouldn't call it the collest

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Call it the collest? I don't even know what the "collest" is

BECOKA · February 27, 2008 10:34AM

Now if they just did that to our current Cent we would not have an issue of it being worth more than marked.

Mark · February 27, 2008 11:09AM

mozeppa:

I'm not so sure about that coin--it's weakly struck in the center.

robkool · February 27, 2008 11:18AM

I guess Mr. Simpson would be happy to own it...

mozeppa · February 27, 2008 11:36AM

<< mozeppa:

I'm not so sure about that coin--it's weakly struck in the center.

>>

your comment was so transparent....i saw right thru it!

Petescorner · February 27, 2008 11:39AM

<< 

<< mozeppa:

I'm not so sure about that coin--it's weakly struck in the center.

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your comment was so transparent....i saw right thru it!

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When are you going to pick your title?

Mark · February 27, 2008 11:40AM

mozeppa:

Your comment--

!

mozeppa · February 27, 2008 11:44AM

not sure Dan....nothing has really spoke to me yet!

MrEureka · February 27, 2008 11:50AM

BTW, the inspiration for these coins came from the artist Eastman Johnson. Interestingly, one of his better known works is called "The Counterfeiters". Apparently, the subject was of interest to him. There's probably more info out there that would help complete the picture. Let's see what we can dig up.

Goldbully · February 27, 2008 11:55AM

sumnom · February 27, 2008 12:12PM

<< mozeppa:

I'm not so sure about that coin--it's weakly struck in the center.

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No, it was struck too strongly, struck all the way through, in fact.

mozeppa · February 27, 2008 12:15PM

Andy ...you're my this weeks HERO! love the red / blue one!

Lakesammman · February 27, 2008 12:18PM

I've seen quite a few at auction but have never understood the attraction.

What do you like about it?

The only one I've ever wanted was one of the specimans engraved by Longacre.

mozeppa · February 27, 2008 1:33PM

for me ...the attraction is only that its so different from the usual proof....and the color.

RYK · February 27, 2008 1:47PM

I am new to the pattern specialty, but I have never seen the attraction to these coins that look like little washers. I might feel differently about a gold one.

pb2y · February 27, 2008 2:26PM

An 1854 pattern--the only one known.

Lakesammman · February 27, 2008 2:41PM

I guess they put a hole there to increase the diameter so you wouldn't lose the little bugger.

Still makes me wonder what's missing in the middle.

mozeppa · February 27, 2008 2:49PM

<< I guess they put a hole there to increase the diameter so you wouldn't lose the little bugger.

Still makes me wonder what's missing in the middle.

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the cream filling!

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CaptHenway · February 27, 2008 3:13PM

"Holey Cow!"

RWB · February 27, 2008 9:25PM

Eastman Johnson’s original sketches for holed coins are in the national archives. The patterns look like his drawings. One of the reasons for trying this was to prevent confusion between minor coins and gold coins. People were easily confused by gold plated minor coins – 3-cent and 5-cent primarily – and Johnson proposed using holed blanks to make the denomination readily apparent. Proposals also included making the cents out of CuNi. The same era included edge lettering experiments to make counterfeiting more difficult and prevent crooks from cutting into gold coins, removing some of the gold then filling with platinum or some other cheap substitute. Most experiments stopped when A Loudoun Snowden left in 1885.

Note the inverted US Shield on the reverse.

This Is one of the coolest 1-cent pattern pieces I ever saw!

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