As a variety collector one tries their best to study varieties, somehow remember as much as possible, study references, and of course one needs to hunt their prey. All take some doing, esspecially in the middle of a pandemic. Not being able to attend coin shows to study specimens in hand. But once in a blue moon the stars do a line and your given a chance to use all you know to make and educated guess and pull the trigger. How about an R-7 variety in Au. with a premium factor of 4 times the same coin same grade,same condition. I also have both of the 1876 P MPD's so this one brings the set to a closer close. These are fun varieties to hunt and discover. So today I give you another very rare 76 S MPD, The images are sellers and @Nathan401 image of the date. You see Nathan gave me an asst with the purchase. As I first gave him the choice to pull the trigger for his collection. As a variety hunter himself he knew how much this find was to me....so he aquired it and sold it to me. Thank you. So folks here she is ....notice the date and denticals 1876 under the 6 to the south east the 6 sits in the teeth , allow you focus to slide to the left...notice the denticals now focus the image in and out see the tooth that has the top of the 7 on its top. Looks like a little devil as the scroll top of the 7 makes horn like hat on top of tooth. Allow your eye to slide again left you'll find a small semi circle like item just above the teeth. The 8's top. Bingo all digits in place ...Nat said it looks Au. All day long....so that said....have a peek @stldanceartist @TypeCoin971793 @C-B-D
Here is another example the 1876 MPD -002 Briggs obv. 3 another R-7 specimen. At the time of my reference there were none slabed. I know a member here who found 1 in mint state...maybe he will repost it's image.
Just out of curiosity, how did the dates ever get hand stamped that low on the working dies? The bigger question, before or after the dentils? Since looking at the last photo the dentils seem to "crush" the date tops appearing as if behind. I've known about these for many years but never put much thought into how they came to be. Educate me. Thanks!
These are one of my favorite types of varieties. Do you like where's Waldo ? As missed placed dates can be found in the strangest places, There and IHC & aThree cent nickel with 1's in their necks. They can be found in the rock ,the dress, shield ,and other crazy places. I can't wait to get this in hand as I see the 1's flag in the denticles,what looks to be< 3> tops of the 8 the top of the 7 sits on top of a tooth, and then the 6 deep in the teeth.
They can be tricky. You should check out some of these varieties. Kevin Flynn has a real nice pocket spiral book. It list many of these ,in each denomination and series. Here's what cool about them lets say your shopping for a certain coin and it so happens that coin has a history of mpd. So like a two fer....plus these are so cool esspecially when you put your eye to a coin and a little artifact shows up..
The coin die is made off a larger pattern that is transfered to the working die. The coin when minted has to go thru a roll up mill. So the orginal plaster pattern could be the size of a dinner plate, then it's pattern is both reduced in size and carved into the die. The coin struck then all the mis punches , and artifacts transfer along with everything else on the plaster pattern.
Now these aren't MPD's ,but what was going on here....? The rum must of been flowing....pretty good that day.... The 1869 is actually 3 stacked punches.,the other 69 two different digit styles
I honestly don’t see anything on the first coin. I see it clear as day on the second. Are you sure the first one is correctly attributed? Barry Murphy
Yes I did the attribution myself... from an image,and another ct member picked it up for me ,he had this specimen in hand and he'll tell you what it is. And another reason this is an R-7 it isn't as proment as others.
