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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 2059768, member: 23692&quot;]Your first coin is a 9/8.&nbsp; There were 13 different reverse dies that had a larger/rounder font 9 handpunched in over the initial 8 into the working die.&nbsp; The initial order for Canada was 10 million coins and they started late in &#039;58. When the mint saw how fast the Reverse working dies were breaking, and with the Royal Mint in London was using the same presses &amp; machinery that they used on the Brit half-penny (same dia) they made a quick decision.&nbsp; The Canadian cents were bronze, harder than the copper brit coins, and they were 1/3 thinner which led to great stresses on the dies.&nbsp; For all of the remaining coins to be dated 1859 (maybe 7-8 million left on the orig order), they ground off the last digit 8 from the hub (the hub is what is pressed into the working die blanks to make the working dies).&nbsp; Once they completed all the working dies (now incuse/incised with just 185), they had to hand -punch in the final 9 into the die.&nbsp; To do this required 2-4 whacks with the hammer and punch with a hardening of the punch and annealing of the die blank between each whack.&nbsp; It could have been hours or days or weeks between the whacks so they never lined up perfectly with the last whacks.&nbsp; For this reason, the 1859&#039;s are absolutely filled with repunched 9&#039;s that are all over the place... high, low, left, right or tilted either direction from each of the 2-4 hand-whacked punch attempts.</p><p><br /></p><p>You second coin is one of those.&nbsp; It could be the one that has been named &quot;triple-punch 9&quot; in Charlton &amp; trends or it could be just a different &#039;59 that has been triple punched.&nbsp; Check to see if your coin has a die crack from leaf 11 tip to the denticle(leaf 11 is just to the left and slightly lower than the 1 in the date.&nbsp; Then see if you have a large D/C between Victoria and Dei.&nbsp; Your scan and lack of the full reverse (you have to know markers to properly ID) prevents me from saying yes or no.&nbsp;&nbsp; Good luck[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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