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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hoky77, post: 7782024, member: 97374&quot;][ATTACH=full]1335235[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1335236[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The pictures are the photography of Mr. David Poliquin.</p><p><br /></p><p>For obvious reasons to be disclosed, this 1858 Small Letter is my favorite. I acquired this 1858 Small Letter on eBay as, in my opinion, a higher grade coin based on my willingness to to buy a coin that was represented by very poor photos but through the fuzziness showed some traits of a better grade. When I received the coin </p><p>I was rewarded for taking the chance. As a variety enthusiast I examined the coin closely and found it resembled a Snow 10 with some differences that I thought could be attributed to a later die state.&nbsp; It is at this point I want to acknowledge the knowledge and help of Mr. David Poliquin. It is easiest now to post my email conversation with Mr. Poliquin:</p><p><br /></p><p>Me to David:</p><p><br /></p><p>First a question about the doubling of the date on this coin. Rick Snow attributes the variety&nbsp; as a DDO for the S&#039;s in STATES with no mention of doubling of the date. It seems to be excessive to be a RPD so I am assuming it is machine doubling which is something I don&#039;t recall seeing in a Indian Cent date. I also admit to struggling with differentiating between&nbsp; double die errors and machine doubling. Also, I am curious to know when&nbsp; the repunching of a date occurs. I assume it could be on both a new die or one that is being refurbished.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I believe this&nbsp; is a Snow-10 at a later die state than what is in Rick&#039;s Guide. It has developed a die crack from the rim, through OF into the wing tip and the doubling at the date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Poliquins answer:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hello Paul,</p><p><br /></p><p>This example is not from the Snow 10 Die Pairing, based on the date position.&nbsp; The (S)TATE(S) are not the result of hub doubling, but rather the product of reworking of the working dies.&nbsp; These letters break on the working hub and reworked on the working dies.&nbsp; The Snow 10 Die Pairing only exhibits hub doubling on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>In regard to the date anomalies, I would concur with you that the doubling is a result of machine induced doubling rather than genuine repunching.</p><p><br /></p><p>Date repunching occurs when the date is impressed into a finished working die and an unfavorable date position is initially achieved.&nbsp; The date position is then corrected (which is correctly referred to as date repunching) and impressed more heavily than the initial date impression(s).</p><p><br /></p><p>Your example does not exhibit a die crack from &#039;OF&#039;.&nbsp; This is just a scratch.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do suspect that the reverse of your coin exhibits hub doubling, so you are more than welcome to submit it for me examine more closely.</p><p><br /></p><p>This correspondence and submission was early in my interest of die varieties and was instrumental in my becoming a avid enthusiast. As a older IHC collector who has completed his set this gave me a needed new direction in the hobby. Although I did notice the discrepancy&#039;s in the attribution of the Snow-10 pertaining to this coin and I am thankful for Mr. Poliquins credit to me for the discovery , I want to credit Mr. Poliquin with the discovery in that he attributed the nuances I missed that make this coin the 1858-SL, Poliquin-3.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">Link To:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b><a href="http://www.indiancentvarieties.com/1858SLT3_variety003.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.indiancentvarieties.com/1858SLT3_variety003.html" rel="nofollow">1858 Small Letters Type III Reverse Variety 3</a></b></font></p><p><font size="4"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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