Back to OP. My best analysis from the photo is a lamination broken away before the strike but with a retained fragment which is what looks like an...
Here are a couple of other mint related errors. The first is from a really bad batch of copper planchets used in early 1794 and usually found on...
A note of caution for absolute statements of terminology. Many time the terminology adapts to the area of specialization that first captures your...
While I can't see it in the copper, My first impression is a spectacular Lamination/delamination error. it would really depend on whether the blob...
I've heard the term internal cud to describe a piece of the die which breaks out of the die, but not at the rim. It appears to me that a CUD...
As an Early Copper guy. my first impression is a planchet flaw because of the sharpness of the letters on the depressed area. I'm not familiar...
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I couldn't have done it if I was trying. It happens to be my birth-year set and I picked it up because there were no distracting marks or toning...
Sorry. I don't know you well enough to know your level of expertise. I've been collecting for fifty years and still run across areas where my...
I agree.
If you found an INCUSED surface ( I think this is the word you were searching for) strike, it would more likely come from a Brockage where a coin...
The 1808 Half Cent was still a Draped Bust, so the 1809 C-4 is the attribution.
Looks like a 1809 C-4 Reverse. I see nothing inconsistent with the obverse to indicate it isn't. But I don't know if the reverse was used on...
I checked back and 2 C-5s were in the search because 1/2 C 9 over 9 met the search parameters. I have to guess on the variety numbers when I...
I usually concentrate on reverse differences. I checked Heritage and it looked like C-3 to me. But they also had a listing for a C-9, but no C-7...
In this case, the reverse berry location is diagnostic which narrows it down. The outside berry under a pair of leaves where they diverge and...
It arrived and unfortunately, what I thought was distortion from taking the photo at an angle was actually post mint flattening. ~Perhaps the...
Unfortunately, provenance has only become important to me since late 2019. I have a note in paypal that I made a private purchase from Donald...
I'm definitely NOT in the "IGNORANCE IS BLISS" camp. I read about that somewhere a long time go.
In looking at Hawaiian Copper in Heritage Archives, I've noticed a drastic improvement in the image quality starting about 2006. Right now I'm in...
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