Hi everyone! Hopefully you've had a nice weekend and we're not inconvenienced too much by the passing hurricane remnants. Personally, I was glad it tracked through central PA instead of the I-95 corridor, but I feel for those in the path. Anyways, I've just recently (like within the past hour) heard about Longacre doubling, after a nice acetone bath for some coins headed to my 7070. One of which is my 1865 2-cent piece. I hadn't noticed this until after the soaking, but now it's standing out to me like a lobster crawling out of someone's ears. Certainly there is a pool of knowledge here that I still have yet to even dip my toes into, so I thought I'd bring this up to see if I can maybe learn something new and ask your opinions on this particular coin. I've done a bit of research on this so far, but it's minimal in comparison to actual knowledge from the learned folk here. I'll keep digging, but I'd sincerely appreciate your input if you have anything to share. Thank you, and have a nice evening!
I'll post more pictures of it closer up sometime this week. I'm about to start on dinner here, the wife and kid just got back from a concert weekend away, but the concert got postponed. They still got to go to Hershey Park, so not a total loss!
I found a post by me here on the same subject.... Longacre doubling explained -Newbies to Errors | Coin Talk
So very likely to be Longacre, which I find really interesting. No additional value is fine by me, I'm just happy that I decided to break it out from the slab for my type album, and also discovering this stuff about Longacre fellow. Thanks for the help!
It's a shame that someone cleaned that coin. Weak strike but still tons of detail where it matters, and nary a scratch to be seen on it.
