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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;p91, post: 1652251, member: 6174&quot;]Someone I know whos a longtime collector replied to me with this:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="arial">I find this coin very intrigueing.&nbsp; I have carefully examined it and have come to the conclusion that it is an N12 variety.&nbsp; I agree that this coin has been double struck on the reverse with something also going on at the top of the obverse.&nbsp; But, there is another problem if this is truly an N12 variety.&nbsp; All N12 and N11 coins were struck using the same obverse with N11 before N12 as this obverse slowly develops a radial crack which starts to break off slowly to eventually yield the various harpooned whale cuds on the N12.&nbsp; Since the N11 starts with a small crack that doesn&#039;t form cuds untill the N12 reverse was used, the N11 had to be made first.&nbsp; This appears to be an N12 with NO CRACK!!&nbsp; My guess is that the N12 obverse and reverse were actually used first (with no cracks) but that the reverse die was not properly attached.&nbsp; After this coin went through the press, it did not release and the reverse die fell loose and resulted in the way off center doubling on your coin.&nbsp; The pressure of this mis-strike may have actually caused the radial crack later seen, but that is a guess with no evidence.&nbsp; I would propose that, instead of re-attaching the N12 reverse, the die master used the N11 reverse untill it fell apart.&nbsp; Then the switch went back to the N12 reverse, properly attached.&nbsp; Quite an elaborate story but I think it agrees with the observation of this coin, as well as the known history of the N12 obverse crack die states.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="arial">As a unique coin, it is anyone&#039;s quess what it is worth.&nbsp; I have spent close to $1,000 for the rarest of the Harpooned whale N12 die states.&nbsp; I am going to send pictures of this coin to John Wright to see if he agrees with me or has another explaination for this coin.&nbsp; He has helped me to confirm (or not) other rare coins I have picked up.&nbsp; Thanks for showing me this coin.&nbsp; I only wish I would have seen it when it was on Ebay.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="arial">---</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="arial"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="arial">P.S. &amp; FYI This coin was immediately sold up for 300.&nbsp; Thinking I should have priced it closer to the 1k mark but its on its way out as I am not one to go back on a deal... Learning a good bit here, thanks everyone for the info</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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