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1848 CAL $2.5 - Double Struck?
MrEureka
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The Heritage sale has an interesting 1848 CAL Quarter Eagle. The date (and maybe more) appears to be dramatically doubled. (Link to Lot.) Then again, it could also be strike doubling. And yet again, it could be a different type of strike doubling unique to the issue, because the CAL may have been applied "post strike" while the coin was still sitting on the obverse die. What do you think?
Andy Lustig
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Dennis
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When I was at ANACS we had a different CAL. piece in where the coins was not properly seated in the obverse die when the counterstamp blow was made, and so the date (which is more or less opposite the counterstamp) was "double struck" by the date in the die. There was no doubling elsewhere.
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This coin is absolutely genuine. Bid with confidence.
Tom DeLorey
<< <i>The counterstamps were applied to the backs of the coins while the coins were lying face down in the obverse die on a workbench.
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When I was at ANACS we had a different CAL. piece in where the coins was not properly seated in the obverse die when the counterstamp blow was made, and so the date (which is more or less opposite the counterstamp) was "double struck" by the date in the die. There was no doubling elsewhere.
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This coin is absolutely genuine. Bid with confidence.
Tom DeLorey >>
Makes sense. In addition, the neck cut-off of Liberty appears unnaturally strong, which would be an effect of the stamp being applied with the coin seated in the die.
<< <i>The counterstamps were applied to the backs of the coins while the coins were lying face down in the obverse die on a workbench.
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When I was at ANACS we had a different CAL. piece in where the coins was not properly seated in the obverse die when the counterstamp blow was made, and so the date (which is more or less opposite the counterstamp) was "double struck" by the date in the die. There was no doubling elsewhere.
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This coin is absolutely genuine. Bid with confidence.
Tom DeLorey >>
Tom knows a lot. I think that he is almost certainly correct.
I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.
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<< <i>The counterstamps were applied to the backs of the coins while the coins were lying face down in the obverse die on a workbench.
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When I was at ANACS we had a different CAL. piece in where the coins was not properly seated in the obverse die when the counterstamp blow was made, and so the date (which is more or less opposite the counterstamp) was "double struck" by the date in the die. There was no doubling elsewhere.
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This coin is absolutely genuine. Bid with confidence.
Tom DeLorey >>
I doesn't look like the upper portion of each of the digits in the date sheared off.
It almost looks like they delaminated from the impact of the counter strike.
hrh
<< <i>The counterstamps were applied to the backs of the coins while the coins were lying face down in the obverse die on a workbench.
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When I was at ANACS we had a different CAL. piece in where the coins was not properly seated in the obverse die when the counterstamp blow was made, and so the date (which is more or less opposite the counterstamp) was "double struck" by the date in the die. There was no doubling elsewhere.
.
This coin is absolutely genuine. Bid with confidence.
Tom DeLorey >>
A very useful tidbit. Thanks