1881-H Penny

[Guest Muygrandeoso]

Hello,

I have found an 1881-H penny with a date variety that I can not find . It seems to be a small date. I have attached a jpeg of the date. Has antone seen this variety before. If so is it common

Thanks,

Chris

[Red Riley]

Hello,

I have found an 1881-H penny with a date variety that I can not find . It seems to be a small date. I have attached a jpeg of the date. Has antone seen this variety before. If so is it common

Thanks,

Chris

Certainly Michael Gouby does not list any varieties of 1881H. The 'genuine' narrow date pennies appear to have ended in 1879 (distinguished in several other ways e.g. narrow lighthouse) and the date was quite distinctly smaller, wheras this appears to be much more marginal. Are there any other changes from the standard article? As a footnote, the infamous 1874 seems to have almost limitless date sizes, so perhaps in every year there were slight variations from die to die.

[Bronze & Copper Collector]

Aside from the obvious differences of Freeman numbers, there are also at least these 4 different variations of position of the H beneath the date.....

H Touching 1st 8

H Touching 2nd 8

H Central & HIGH

H Central & LOW

I have examples of all 4, but haven't had the opportunity to take pictures of them yet.... The description is obvious enough, but if you need images, I'll try to get around to it later on.......

[Guest Muygrandeoso]

Aside from the obvious differences of Freeman numbers, there are also at least these 4 different variations of position of the H beneath the date.....

H Touching 1st 8

H Touching 2nd 8

H Central & HIGH

H Central & LOW

I have examples of all 4, but haven't had the opportunity to take pictures of them yet.... The description is obvious enough, but if you need images, I'll try to get around to it later on.......

Thanks! I guess this is a H central and high

Thanks for the help.

[Bronze & Copper Collector]

Here are the various H placements on the 1881-H F-108...

Also a pic of the VERY RARE F-103

Edited October 27, 2006 by Bronze & Copper Collector