TWO Cent Thursday! -Post yours TOO.

Calling today " TWO Cent Thursday"! Why? Because I can, LOL.
This my "Dug" 1864 Large date and my non-dug 1869.
Please Post yours too!

 

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I found my first 2 CENTS Metal Detecting.
Top coin of course. Bottom is a picture I added so you can see what it looks like..

 

One for the error guys. Incomplete planchet, AKA Clipped Planchet.

 

I've posted this one before. Another one for the error collectors.

 

.... don't have any.....yet.

 

This one has been handed around some.

 

I like the dug one

 

Very nice.

 

Now that’s a tuff find. Not a lot of them to dig up

 

Nice. We should guess the grade on that one

 

Doug? Who's that?
I actually dug 4 that day around the same "cellar hole". Check out my media page.

 

1871 is a prime number, so here's mine.


I have another (sort of) that I picked up last week that I'll photograph tonight.

 

1864 Small Motto, which was really a leftover pattern coin die that was used for a small number of regular issue coins.



1864 Large Motto. I always look at the "D" in "GOD" to tell them apart. If that fails, the motto is closer to the rim on the Small Motto variety than it is on the Large Motto. That works even for coins Good or less condition.

 

My Large Motto and Small Motto coins. I tell the Small Motto quickly from the CCW rotation of the G in GOD.

 

Yes, the Small Motto design was never intended to be anything other than a pattern. Frankly, no one knows certainly why proof and circulation strikes were produced and issued with the Small Motto. Although I suppose Kevin Flynn in his book has the "best" hypothesis.

There were only two Small Motto obverse dies used to strike coins dated 1864. One die produced about 10 to 15 Small Motto proof coins. The other die produced an unknown quantity of circulation strike Small Motto coins but the number is usually estimated as "several thousand".

What do the TPG population reports tell us?

There have been 1,205 grading events at PCGS and 746 at NGC for a total of 1,951. If we assume that 10% of these are resubmissions and crossovers (a completely arbitrary percentage on my part), then the number of coins would be 1,755. Assuming a survival rate of 20% (again, arbitrary but higher than most series because of the first year of issue, etc.) then the total minted might be 8,775. Compare that to the total mintage of two cent pieces dated 1864 of over 19 million.

Just playing with the numbers. Your mileage may vary.