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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;crypto79, post: 2491245, member: 24254&quot;]Some of you may be familiar with the nuances of the Trade dollar series and have heard of the Wide CC coins. One of the charming things about the series is that it is right on the tail end of when craftsmen made the hubs, master dies and die with processes that added a large amount of variance through adhock additions. Many a date punch was hit into the denticals, mint marks used different sized punches in what ever place the mint worker felt like hitting them causing many differences from die to die ect.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the more strikingly different Mint Mark combos was a CC punch that placed the C&#039;s 1.2 millimeters apart while using a very small C font. This would be nothing new as there were quite a few fonts big and small, close and far but these were by far the smallest C&#039;s and placed abnormally far apart. Even then history could have noted a weird die and moved on but for some reason this die made it into production for small (or low surviving) batches and went back onto the shelf to be used again in other years. As far back as the 70s collectors noticed the wide CC and set them aside as cool/ special. After looking, examples were found in 1873, 1874 and 1876. All are rare with the 73 &amp; 74 only having a few dozen known if that. The 76 is very scarce but can be found often in lower grades. The rev die is known to be the same by exact die markers on various spots on the coin being present on all dates.</p><p><img src="http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/24932/24143788/1873CCWideMM1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/24702387_800x600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/24932/14817946/76cc%20type1%20non-DDR.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>It has long made for fun sub-set for specialist that posed a real challange to complete in any grade due to their rarity. People have speculated about the date gap missing for the 1875 but even with people keeping an eye out none ever showed up. The die became obsolete after 1876 when the series moved to the type 2 hubs and retired all type 1 dies so no 1877 could possibly exist. </p><p><br /></p><p>Example of a typical small cc</p><p><img src="http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/24932/21314465/image.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Example of typical larger font </p><p><img src="http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/24932/26567547/1875cc%20AU53.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>After years of specialists flipping over 1000s of coins, two of the long speculated and often rumored 1875cc Wide CC 1.2 have been found. Both with xf details, one cleaned and the other with rim bumps. The rim bump example was graded by both NGC and PCGS while the other is in PCGS details plastic. </p><p><br /></p><p>The discovery piece in the Keoj collection (note the old school xf Cir tone) in between Ngc to PCGS plastic for examining </p><p><img src="http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/24932/1089874/image13.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/24932/1089874/image12.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The 2nd cleaned example that resides in my variety refrence &quot;CC collection&quot; <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=1220" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=1220" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=1220</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/24932/33572120/image1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/24932/33572120/image.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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