Die break 1838 Large Cent - rare variety??

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  1. C-B-D

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  3. Paul M.

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    No idea (I'm away from my books right now), but that's a pretty cool die break.
     
  4. Yankee42

    Yankee42 Well-Known Member

    Is it N-4? I'm learning too.
     
  5. SuperDave

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  6. C-B-D

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  7. SuperDave

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    Judging from the ones I saw at Heritage - this is kind of a guess - the crack at 1:00 appeared fairly soon, but it was deteriorating quickly by the time the crack on the bottom started developing. Yours has the major break in the hair, just not the cud, and no die is going to last long with that large a hole in it. "Middle" by definition, but I doubt as many as, say, 100 were struck after yours. That die was trashed.
     
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  8. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Definitely middle die stage. Before the cud begins to form below the date the rim cud develops at star 12 which your coin doesn't have.
     
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