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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HammeredCoin, post: 2232538, member: 75598&quot;]Here are a few Edward I pennies I just bought.&nbsp; Nothing particularly rare about either one, but filling in gaps on the different classes I need and the Canterbury coin had a extremely fine strike and clear portrait.&nbsp; As with other coins, the portrait on early Edwardian pennies are the first to be worn/damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another common occurrence in Edward I and II pennies is the appearance of the &quot;negative&quot; on the obverse of the cross from the reverse.&nbsp; Look at the second coin from this post.&nbsp; You will see what I am referring to.</p><p><br /></p><p>This occurs when the flan (the blank silver disk) is too thin.&nbsp; And because the reverse die is always the half placed in the workbench facing up while the obverse die is held by hand and struck while facing down, the brief liquification of the silver flows downward to fill the gap in the reverse for the long cross.</p><p><br /></p><p>And because there is not enough silver to produce the raised long cross and the raised portions of the obverse, gravity wins and this ghost appears on the front.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]439100[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]439101[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Now below is an example of a flan that is too thin and thus the ghost of the long cross from the reverse appears on the obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]439102[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]439103[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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