Hey Gang, After years of being behind the table and seeing all sorts of rare and valuable coins I have found myself in a very strange place... I am collecting personally again. I haven't had an organized coin collection since the late 90's. When I got the coin shop I thought of the entire shop as my coin collection and when people asked me what was in my coin collection I told them "you are standing in it" as the shop was paid for partly with the proceeds from the sale of my personal collection. Just this morning I realized that I still have a bit of collector left in me. I have had a couple of these coins for a while and just purchased the US cent this week. I couldn't bring myself to sell the first 2 and I personally purchased them from the shop this week. So at the moment my collection of "Obverse Die Caps From Around The World" contains only 3 coins but I have never been more proud of my personal collection before. It has brought me back to where I started and really given me a new found love for these coins.
That's really cool. I never get to see those in person except that one The Penny Lady let me hold. Wow was it cool. I'll keep my eye out for you for some more and let you know if I find any but dont hold your breath.
Nice ones! Looks like a challenging ,long term project. I guess once a collector , always a collector. By the way did you get a good deal on those two, and how did the negotiations go.
Glad to hear you're back Matt! :thumb: That Canadian cent in the middle is awesome, that thing is deep. How often do you drink out of it? :goofer:
If the slabbed coin has a clear brockage of the obverse design on the reverse face, then it's the product of a single strike. Although these are uniformly slabbed as die caps, they are simply the mates to a double-struck reverse die cap. The top coin always curls toward the hammer die.
Mike, The Lincoln cent has no design on the reverse side at all. None of the 3 caps shown have any design on the reverse side.
If the wall and floor of the reverse face are featureless, then you're dealing with a uniface die cap. With respect to the slabbed Lincoln cent, there is no easy way to tell if it was struck more than once. A centered, broadstruck, uniface cent will also curl up toward the hammer die with the first strike. It's mate would also be a broadstruck, uniface cent, but the bottom coin would expand mainly in the horizontal plane. Again, you'd have a "cup-and-saucer" arrangement. With its exceedingly high wall, the middle coin is certainly a die cap. I can't be sure about the coin on the right, but I suspect it's an anvil die cap (Canadian coins are struck with the anvil die functioning as the obverse die). I'd say more than 50% of coins slabbed as "die caps" by the major grading services represent other kinds of errors.
Those are some really cool looking coins. I have seent hem online but never up close and personal. Well you send them to me so I can get a better look.:kewl:
If you got that 1998 Lincoln from the Penny Lady, I probably looked at it at FUN this year. She had some doozies!
