I missed this excellent thread the first time around. glad it was bumped. Very informative and an interesting sub-collection within the CWT's
More information is always better. Nice research. What die do you think you have? Now I'm thinking die 1 instead of die 4. If the die...
I do think that combining the information on the die rotation with the mintmark position and apperance should be enough to establish authenticity,...
I have one of those, too. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I really like the Bode tokens. Here is a good thread about those and Mr. Bode himself. My example is posted about halfway down the thread....
The image that John Burgess cites I can't find on my computer; I think I copied it from a post on the CU forum years ago. The die rotation info...
I found this image of the 4 mintmark positions on my external hard drive: [ATTACH]
Not much to add, but when I looked at the rev closeups I could see that the plant details were very granular and consistent with a transfer die fake.
Thanks, Publius2. I'll refer to it as the "mute eagle" variety.
I see. the 2 in 25 is low.
Hmm, think I have one too, my lone "late" bust quarter [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Was that Sheridan's auction? Lots of eye candy!
These circulated in early America and have an interesting design A lot of shipwreck salvaged coins are available as well as a lot of cleaned and...
great coin, and deserving of JA's approval
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