Would you agree in the attached image there is no crossbar?

[absence of uniformity]

As the title says.

Thank you.

 

[jelida]

I think you’ll find a crossbar there in the hand, under the crud. I have hopefully bought several over the years and they have all had faint crossbars (under the microscope) due to die fill. I doubt that any master die was ever created using an inverted V for the A, it’s simply that some of the many working dies created from each master developed die fill in use causing the crossbar to become very faint or absent. It is possible that some filled dies were re-punched with an inverted V  for the A - the use of I, F, L etc for partial letter repairs seems well attested (see Gouby) but this is part of normal die management and should not be regarded as erroneous, though particularly obvious repairs can achieve collectable status.

Jerry

[absence of uniformity]

Thank you for the response. Its a V not an A !

Edited 2 hours ago by absence of uniformity

[Coinery]

Gosh, let’s be straight with each other, how is that going to encourage future comments on your posts? That’s ridiculously underhand!

[PWA 1967]

Sorry i am a bit thick and perhaps dont understand 😀

Are you asking why a V doesnt have a cross bar ?

[absence of uniformity]

4 minutes ago, Coinery said:

Gosh, let’s be straight with each other, how is that going to encourage future comments on your posts? That’s ridiculously underhand!

sorry you feel that way. The question remains the same.. I did not ask about V or A rather do you agree there is no crossbar.. Interestingly do you think the response would of been different with the second image?

[absence of uniformity]

2 minutes ago, PWA 1967 said:

Sorry i am a bit thick and perhaps dont understand 😀

Are you asking why a V doesnt have a cross bar ?

I'm asking whether you agree or not the initial image does not show a crossbar, based on the possible faint line visible.

 

[Coinery]

10 minutes ago, absence of uniformity said:

 Interestingly do you think the response would have been different with the second image?

No, just that it’s a very juvenile way of communicating with adults. We’re all interested in these things, but this definitely fell short of the way I like to discuss things with others.

[absence of uniformity]

3 minutes ago, Coinery said:

No, just that it’s a very juvenile way of communicating with adults. We’re all interested in these things, but this definitely fell short of the way I like to discuss things with others.

My intention was to keep it simple, and not let any other factors influence the core question about the possible crossbar or not.

Jerry awnsered on the basis the letter in question was the letter A.

My response was simply to indicate its actually V.

I dont think Jerry will take offence, I hope he wont I dont really see why he would. That certainly was not my intention.

In either image the question remains the same, but does either image receive the same response?

 

 

 

[Coinery]

Maybe it’s just your natural approach to things, but I can’t imagine for a second it’ll encourage free unguarded comments going forward, that’s all!

[PWA 1967]

I think you’re better off either buying them or don’t, having the coin in hand rather than asking questions from a photograph. I am sure everyone on the forum who collects copper/bronze from a picture has thought the coin was something it wasn’t. Hope that makes sense, people have looked at bronze pennies for years and although hundreds not recorded it’s because the tiny differences are not really relevant. Cgs when they were slabbing pennies had over 80 just for 1860 and if you want to take it so far then my own opinion is your doing a lot of work finding and buying pennies that nobody else would be interested in. Maybe study the Gouby book as there are plenty in there recorded that you can look for and recorded being more than one of each rather than something struck in error like a random flaw, dot or die crack or tiny difference in date width. As I mentioned you can take it as far as you want, just ones like 1902 pennies there are over 20 and yet most you can’t see with the naked eye 😃