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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;toolady, post: 1823184, member: 20242&quot;]<i>Continued from my introduction thread - I’m back and ready to have that coin talk now…</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to first re-post the coin that started it all… I can now honestly see the reason for the whizzed comments back in 2009. However, I truly do not think this coin was whizzed…</p><p><br /></p><p>First up from “The Box” is a 1852 large cent which is, in my opinion, a double/multi struck obv with a uniface rev (I should probably be calling it a blank rev but I like the term uniface hahaha)</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m posting the photos 6 per page with a high enough resolution that you should be able to zoom in for more details. If the forum software compacts uploaded photos and zoom isn’t possible I can post them individually for your viewing enjoyment. Just let me know.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look around the obv collar it’s clear to see what looks to me like stars. Looking below the date in-between and slightly below the 8 and 2 it looks like another 8 and 2. Now here is where I get confused and I have to admit I have no other large cents to compare it to, the weight is wrong at 9.3. One thought is that it is a split planchet struck with another planchet under it? The only other coin I can come up with even close to this weight would be from Peru, as far fetched as that sounds!</p><p><br /></p><p>I truly do not believe it is whizzed and here’s why: The sheet of coins that came out of “The Box” seemed like a random collection without any clue as to what my grandfather or great grandfather was collecting, or at least that was how it first appeared to me. At this point I was fascinated with error coins and set the sheet away to hunt for errors. Every once in awhile I’d pull out the sheet and wonder why such a random collection of coins. At this point the coins were all still in their 2x2’s in the plastic holder and then it hit me (just a mere five years later, doh), since <b>I</b> had such a fascination for errors what if he was collecting errors? This hit me while I was driving and hours away from the coins so I couldn’t just go check, thought I would come out of my skin with anticipation. Needless to say when I got home, I pulled them all out of their 2x2’s and under a 10x loupe and the examination began and sure enough the very next coin after the large cent was an error coin, as are many of the coins. Now other than the US large cent the rest of the coins are from other countries. Since I was not familiar with how other countries coins should look, the process to figure out just what the errors are has been slow with some of the errors still unidentified. Note - My family is from Scotland, Glasgow / Edinburgh so some of the coins are of course from GB. Other countries include Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Peru, France, Canada…</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some of the double struck / uniface Large Cent photos</p><p>[ATTACH=full]299684[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]299685[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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