Bronze & Copper Collector

The other obverse die does NOT have a doubled or re-engraved A......

Definitely

The BEST that I ever saw... RIP!!

I agree...

Outstanding find!!

I'm sure he will..

Very nice job.....

Like PCGS, NGC, etc?????

I limit myself to circulation strikes for budgetary reasons... I am on a fixed income and have to enforce some limits... As a general rule no proofs nor patterns, although I do have some that I did manage to obtain.. That being said, I am a completionist by nature and try to include the varieties when I can... I have been fortunate in acquiring many scarce and rare varieties although I know I cannot acquire everything.. If money were no object I would collect EVERYTHING, that being the completionist in me.. I know that there are several bronze pennies that I probably will never own, unless I find them unattributed somewhere.. the 1933, the 1952 & 1954, I have an F-192a but not the new variants, the rare 1953 varieties, the 1863 slender 3, die #'s 3 & 5, etc.... However, I keep on looking... hoping to at least possibly find an F-19 somewhere... It's as much the thrill of the chase/hunt as anything else.... discovering new varieties etc...

I would never be content buying that coin as a proof. .....

Specimen 2:

Peter asked me to post the images for him.. Specimen 1:

Have Happy & Healthy Birthday. .

The entire reverse normal orientation and rotated for visibility..

The examples I have seen are all positioned as my specimens 1&2... I had never seen one positioned as my specimen 3.....

I agree with the 1897's.. I believe I had posted them before. . I have a lightish dot, a heavy dot, and a 3rd with a die crack extending from/through the dot.. Similarly, I have the usual 1946 dot as well as one that has a comet shaped die crack...

Thankd for your comments Richard.. Specimen 2 is well worn but clearer on direct examination. I'm a terrible photographer... I'm sure of 1 & 2... 3 is what got me curious. . Nothing strikes me as wrong with the coin, just that the dot is not where it "belongs"... which is why I was asking if there were any other known variants as #3...

I think the difference in color is a trick of the lighting.. Under direct examination it is the same color as the coin. There is a spot of verdigris on the dot. I tried to scrape the dot off with my fingernail to no avail. It also a appears as a perfect dot. I would not expect a drop from welding to be so symmetrical...

I'm not sure if this has been posted, I couldn't find anything... I just found my 3rd 1909 DOT Penny, however the dot is in a different location.... Slightly lower in the same basic area.... Has anyone made note of this before???? Thanks, Gary Images as follows: 1909 DOT Specimen 1 1909 DOT Specimen 2 1909 DOT Specimen 3 Image 1 1909 DOT Specimen 3 Image 2

F-6

I seem to remember reading somewhere that coins were sometimes placed between pieces of leather and pressure applied either by repetitive hammer strokes, steady pressure, etc.... it would both enlarge and flatten them a bit ..... I'm not sure whether this could also account for the apparent doubling. I do seem to remember something about this procedure inducing a sort of ghost doubling on one side of the coin..... Just throwing this into the mix from memory... I can't locate any documentation on this process; just what I think I remember a dealer explaining to me 35+ years ago when showing me a similar coin.... I may be off in another universe with this, but maybe it will jog someone else's memory....