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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2583896, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><b>&quot;One... WHAT?!?&quot;: Risqué alteration on reverse of 1852 Braided Hair large cent</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1c-1852-naughty-02860-coin-censored.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>I have censored the above images</b> hopefully to be within full compliance of forum rules.&nbsp; If you&#039;re a grownup and wish to see the other pictures, click away, offsite, but be forewarned.&nbsp; (They&#039;re not <i>that</i> bad, but definitely naughty, as you can likely guess even without peeking.)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1c-1852-naughty-02860-coin.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1c-1852-naughty-02860-coin.png" rel="nofollow">Obverse-reverse image</a> (<b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">*WARNING*-uncensored</span></b>)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1c-1852-naughty-02860-obv.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1c-1852-naughty-02860-obv.png" rel="nofollow">Larger obverse image</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1c-1852-naughty-02860-rev.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1c-1852-naughty-02860-rev.png" rel="nofollow">Larger reverse image</a> (<b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">*WARNING*-uncensored</span></b>)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Host coin: </b>1852 Braided Hair large cent.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Obverse:</b> orginal Braided Hair Liberty head design, unaltered.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Reverse: </b>risqué alteration of &quot;E&quot; in &quot;CENT&quot; to a &quot;U&quot;; engraving incomplete.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Ex-&quot;lotsofmotts&quot;, eBay, 7/22/2016.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">It might have been the early Victorian era, but there was no shortage of raunch around. These &quot;naughty&quot; cent alterations were quite the cottage industry and are common enough today that you could probably complete a date set of Braided Hair cents with these risqué reverses. Maybe even a good bit of the middle-date Coronet Head cents, too.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This particular example has a better than average host coin but somewhat poorer than average (perhaps incomplete) carving. The incomplete nature of the carving on this one sort of demonstrates how they created these, however.&nbsp; I know that bored Civil War soldiers with lots of time on their hands in camp made some naughty carvings on coins and the huge lead Minie bullets of the period.&nbsp; But it&#039;s probable that a lot of this was going on well before then, back into the 18th century and even earlier.&nbsp; Though I&#039;ve never seen an example, I&#039;m nearly certain there must be naughty graffiti on Roman coins (and I&#039;m not talking about the Roman <i>spintriae</i> brothel tokens, either.)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Also note the apparent strikethrough or planchet flaw in the right obverse field.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This piece was briefly a part of my <a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.aspx?catid=26&amp;threadid=953536&amp;enterthread=y" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.aspx?catid=26&amp;threadid=953536&amp;enterthread=y" rel="nofollow">Engraved/Counterstamped/Oddball Type Set</a>, until I thought better of that and sold it.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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