1799 farthing - double-punched obverse lettering?

[damian1986]

Just wondering if one of you kind people can explain what's happened here?

A second punch to working dies? Why the broken 1 in the date?

Edited June 23, 2019 by damian1986

[Rob]

The letter profile is too similar for it to be a repunched/repaired die. If double struck I would expect to see the same on the border teeth, or anywhere else for that matter. The lighting is a bit misleading, so do the teeth show the same displacement? If not, then it suggests it was on the die as made.

[damian1986]

42 minutes ago, Rob said:

The letter profile is too similar for it to be a repunched/repaired die. If double struck I would expect to see the same on the border teeth, or anywhere else for that matter. The lighting is a bit misleading, so do the teeth show the same displacement? If not, then it suggests it was on the die as made.

Thanks Rob it's hard to say - I would say no, except around the 1 in the date there's a case for a displaced tooth but with the coin in hand I'm still not really sure.

The "double striking" is only really clear in  1 GEORGEIUS III DEI running clockwise from the 1 to the I in DEI. 

The portrait shows no signs of double striking which is why I initially considered to not be double struck.