secret santa

Michael Gouby has recently sent me pictures of an 1860 F10 with an interesting variation on the reverse. There are 2 additional lines to the border of St Andrew's cross in the top left quadrant of Britannia's shield. They seem to be too accurately placed to be the result of a die clash and Michael has asked collectors to check their reverse D pennies for any further instances. I have checked all mine and can't find any. Michael (and I) will be interested to learn of any additional examples.

I'd agree and would also say that the presence of a die crack doesn't constitute a variety, i.e. a unique combination of obverse and reverse types, and so I wouldn't expect to see die cracks (resulting from heavy die usage) mentioned in any reference book.

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It doesn't show on the photo of my proof but I'll take a look in the flesh.

I can't detect that line on any of my specimens.

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The true 1858 over 3 (or 2 as is now thought) always has a die flaw through the base of the date numerals:

Rather catty ............

Are you certain about this ?

Does anyone ???????

Please post a photo of the obverse

Ah yes, I hadn't recalled that or even seen it when looking through it last night - I bow to your superior knowledge, Gary 😡

I don't think that he goes into the number of die pairings found for any given variety but I'm willing to be proved wrong.

I can only find a mention of an 1862 penny on page 31 which he describes as "as for Number 38" with 2 struck over 1, and which "should be included as Satin 38A", but none of the 1862 2 over 1 examples that I've seen are the F38 die pairing. I'm not sure that John is correct here. Or have I missed something ?

I'll add your coin pics to my website. Would you like me to credit you by name ?

I wonder whether the management at Noonan's is aware of our feedback ?

No acknowledgement of any kind.

Yes, definitely Obv 11 - the hair to the left of the tie knot gives it away.

Well done - lovely coin.

There was definitely a possibility. But not worth betting on in my view.

Jerry, can you email pics to Michael Gouby so that he can update his Medusa document.

Me too but I didn't trust the photo either.

When you get down to a particular auction, either past or present, there seems to be a search facility on each auction page (I think although I can't guarantee every page has one).