Anyone Have an 1875 Dot Cent?

are yu still looking for the 1875 S16 Dot Reverse? I have one

 

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Photo?

 

http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/dot-1875-cent-reverse-secret-mark

 

I currently have one getting ready to get graded next week. Any idea of the current value? Looking to auction off in the future.

 

I currently have 1, getting ready to have it graded next week at the long beach coin show. I'll be auctioning it soon

 

Perhaps a wise starting point would be to post photos.

 

To answer your question.i do have the 1875 dot reverse Indian Head penny and the next few days I will post it and will take it to the show to get it grades.

 

To answer your question I do have the 1875 dot reverse Indian Head penny and will post it in the next few days and going to the long beach coin show to get graded.

 

ffs

 

You do realize that both individuals you seem to believe "questioned" you last posted to this thread eight years ago, right?

The entire reason I - the only member who has thus far attempted to engage you - suggested you post photos was to help ensure you're doing the right thing. It's not like we haven't had near countless other people show up insisting they have something special that turns out to be nothing.

Please, either post photos and/or give us something to work with, or simply come back when you're finally willing to do so.

 

Here are the pictures

 

I have the 1875 dot reverse Indian Head penny and going to the show to get graded. send you some photos.

 

I have 1875 dot reverse Indian Head penny and will send you some photos.

 

Here is the photo's. I have the 1875 dot reverse Indian Head penny and going to the show to get graded.let me know what you think about it.i have the coin for 25 years.

 

Louis... it's just you and I, buddy. Quoting folks who haven't been here in years isn't going to do any good.

That said, thanks for posting the photos. Unfortunately, they're simply not clear enough to tell much of anything, at least with my eyes. The one is somewhat intriguing, but could be anything.

Just as a little food for thought: it usually helps if you image coins outside of the flip.

 

And crop the image to just the coin, and use full size images and not thumbnails when posting them.

 

It was interesting reading this old thread and the story behind the "dot" cent.

My thinking of the Mint's rationale for marking an incuse dot on the die would be that they wouldn't release any of the dot cents minted from the suspected coin press operator. This will only make sense if the Mint secretly melted all of those dot cents, which may also explain why they aren't being discovered today. The Mint could keep this up for a week or however long they deem necessary before changing the "dot" die(s) to a normal one, since the Mint would be losing money as that suspect would be getting paid to essentially do nothing if the coins were to be melted. And, if the Mint wanted to be doubly sure, they'd mark both dies at specific locations to confirm beyond a reasonable doubt that they are looking at a "dot" cent as opposed to an error (incuse dot marks on both dies with relief dot marks on the coin itself is not confirmed, but merely a speculative possibility). With this method, there would be no need for a tedious and costly manual count of all of the coins made by the worker. The worker was already suspected of sneaking some cents out despite the Mint's meticulous accounting measures, right? So a method that doesn't rely on counting would make more sense.

If any of those "dot" cents made it into circulation through a random inspection, made public somehow by a variety collector, or otherwise found on the suspect, then they'd know the Mint worker was stealing. If we do find one today, then the Mint worker was stealing. Otherwise, we can't say that he did. At least, that is the methodology that would make logical sense to me.

 

This is how it was done - crude but effective

 

Then there is the big question...would any current owner(s) of the coin(s) be allowed to keep the coin(s), or would they be confiscated?