[Game] World Coins Time Machine… Counting Backward by Year! (Plus Prize Coin)

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  1. Jimski

    Jimski Well-Known Member

    1795 Flowing Hair Dollar, marriage variety Overton-110, R3 scarce
    USA Half Dollar 1795 obv 2.jpg USA Half Dollar 1795 obv.jpg USA Half Dollar 1795 rev.jpg

    From: https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-variet...aped-bust-half-dollar-die-varieties-vscid-50/
    The first half dollars coined by the United States Mint were dated 1794, though the majority of these were coined early in the following year. Along with the more common 1795 halves, these two dates comprise the entire production of Flowing Hair half dollars.



    From: http://maibockaddict.com/1795-o-110-r3-flowing-hair-half-dollar
    This {O-110} is one of the most common Flowing Hair half dollar die marriages {the other is O-113 also R3, there are 32 varieties identified}. That said, there are only maybe four MS and eight AU examples that have been reported.


    Jimski: After 1795 there are only 2 years of US Mint production remaining … 1794 and 1793.
     
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  3. yarm

    yarm Junior Member

  4. Jimski

    Jimski Well-Known Member

    1794 Liberty Cap cent, Head of 1794, variety Sheldon-22, R1 very common
    USA cent 1794 obv.jpg USA cent 1794 rev.jpg

    From: http://www.coinfacts.com/large_cents/liberty_cap_large_cents/liberty_cap_large_cents.html
    The cap represents freedom -- hats such as this were given to slaves once they became free. The freedom cap was a popular symbol in America during the Revolutionary War, appearing on numerous buttons worn by patriots and soldiers.


    From: https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/liberty-cap-cents-1793-1796-pscid-12
    The Liberty Cap large cents of 1793-1796 are the classics of early American copper coinage. They represent the third step in the infant Philadelphia Mint’s quest for a permanent cent design, succeeding the Chain and Wreath cents that began the new decimal coinage early in 1793. This third design was created by Joseph Wright ... In August 1793, Wright began work at the Mint as an engraver and die-sinker …


    Copper cents were still a novelty when Wright cut his dies. Most Americans had yet to see any of the new Federal coinage, still limited to cents and half cents. The citizens of the sprawling nation—only in its sixth year under the Constitution—thought in terms of Spanish milled dollars, state copper coins and private tokens (when they thought of coins at all). So it was most important that the public would accept the new cent, particularly since the Chain cent received such harsh reviews when first released.


    I can’t find a link to this anymore, but the information is correct.

    Following his {Joseph Wright’s} death in 1793 the design was modified by engraver Robert Scot. Sheldon varieties S-21 thru S-66 are attributed to Scot. All were struck in 1794. The dies were made by hand, accounting for the large number of varieties. Breen indicates that Scot used the same obverse device punch for S-21 thru S-44 and a 2nd for S-45 thru S-66. The hair was engraved into each die separately. Letters and border were added to the die with separate punches.


    From a paper Breen delivered at the conference listed below, Breen recounts how he discovered that the hair was engraved in each of Scot's 1794 cent obverse die, even though a device punch was used. My comments are in {italics}.
    http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan11280
    Robert Scot's Earliest Device Punches
    , Walter Breen
    Coinage of the America's Conference at The American Numismatic Society, New York City © The American Numismatic Society


    Scot's heads on most of the half dollars of 1794-95 are so nearly identical that they must have been made from a device punch. The same remark holds for the eagles on these half dollars, and for their smaller counterparts on the half dismes of 1794-95. ...
    But if so, why are the cent heads not more alike? Why are they so different that even Dr. Sheldon could go on believing until the end of his life that Scot made every cent die by hand?



    … when I superimposed a transparency of the earliest Scot cent obverse, S-21, successively on slides of the next dozen obverses in Sheldon's order (through S-40), I found that the facial features, busts and caps match identically except for occasional minor reworking of some folds of cap. Poles, lettering, dates, and borders do not; nor are the heads identically centered on the dies. … The greatest differences are always in the hair … Maris's Egeria
    {S-27}, Scarred Head{S-24}, Ornate{S-28}, Venus Marina{S-32}, and the rest in this group, are therefore not merely sisters, they are clones wearing different hairdos. {Maris studied the die varieties of the 1794 cent in 1869, and gave the varieties names instead of numbers. These names are still known to numismatists, but have been replaced by Shelby’s classification system, i.e. Egeria is Sheldon-27 or S-27}
     
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  5. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    1794 Aachen XII heller, Utrecht VOC duit, West Frisiae 2 stuiver and Zeeland VOC duit 1794 Aachen XII h obv.JPG 1794 Aachen XII h rev.JPG 1794 U VOC 1 d obv.JPG 1794 U VOC 1 d rev.JPG 1794 WF Ned 2 s obv.JPG 1794 WF Ned 2 s rev.JPG 1794 Z VOC 1 d obv.JPG 1794 Z VOC 1 d rev.JPG
     
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  6. Hiddendragon

    Hiddendragon World coin collector

    Here are 1794s from Prussia and Poland. 1794 prussia 1 schilling.jpg 1794 poland 1 grossus.jpg
     
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  7. yarm

    yarm Junior Member

    The Glorious First of June of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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  8. dirty_brian

    dirty_brian Well-Known Member

  9. Stork

    Stork I deliver Supporter

    1794 Nope, still not collecting conders

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  10. RomanTheRussian

    RomanTheRussian Well-Known Member

    Cathy, that's quite a nice non-collection of Conders :)

    I have a few '94s. One is a satiny AU58 with a neat obverse strike through wire:
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    And the other one is a more colorful AU55 (don't agree with the grade for this one) with a killer strike.

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  11. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Hereford.
    1794.
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  12. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

  13. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Benenden.
    1794.
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  14. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Kingdom of Sardinia.
    1794.
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  15. RomanTheRussian

    RomanTheRussian Well-Known Member

  16. Hiddendragon

    Hiddendragon World coin collector

    1793 Cambridgeshire halfpenny. And I also don't collect Conders. 1793 cambridgeshire half penny.jpg
     
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  17. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    1793 VOC duits, one from Utrecht and one from Zeeland 1793 U VOC 1 d obv.JPG 1793 U VOC 1 d rev.JPG 1793 Z 1 d obv.JPG 1793 Z 1 d rev.JPG
     
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  18. yarm

    yarm Junior Member

    Execution of Marie Antoinette by Conrad Kuchler.

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  19. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    I have this coin labeled as a 1793 Nagar Mint Tipu Sultan 1 paisa. Then I looked at the symbols above the elephant and consulted my chart of various language numerals, and it seemed to be "7121" in Urdu. Further online research led me to some poem about the dreams of Tipu Sultan, wherein he wrote the date of AH1217 backwards...or 7121, which corresponds to 1802 AD. So I guess I will rename my various files for this coin from 1793 to 1802. 1793 Nagar 1 p obv.JPG 1793 Nagar 1 p rev.JPG
     
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  20. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

    I got one from '93!

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  21. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

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