Another prime example. Hair, jewels and rim edges clearly worn. Coin is at best an EF+. Reverse (not pictured) had two rim dings and quite worn edges. BTW, although not annotated on the holder this coin is the slightly rarer of the two C2 dies used (O2R die) in minting approximately 100,000 of the 1...

CPMS good now website and email active again. Guess they were having technical difficulties. Received welcome and membership number.

Concur, both are 'normal' . A high 9 is very obvious. Some 29s have a 'tilted 9' where the 9 is rotated slightly clockwise making the 9 appear high since the tail of the 9 is raised and is almost even relative to the base of the 2.

Well, I received an auto response to my email stating that the email address is no longer active. I guess I will assume CPMS is now indeed defunct. What a shame. Undoubtedly a sign of the times and demographic shift.

Could you please send me an image of a BNS $20 'Dory' if you have one? RD

Hello all. I am conducting a study of the BNS $20 'Dory' and would like to include the latest registry info for that note. I have collected images for about 17 years and have determined that there are so far 190 unique notes of all four issues. I only have unique images of 175 and would like to clos...

Anyone know what is going on with the CPMS website/organization? Are they defunct? I paid for a one year membership on 22 May I haven't heard a thing from them. No welcome, no membership info, nothing. I went to their website tonight and I got a lovely "account suspended page". I sent them an email ...

If anyone sees this post, can you please contact me via email at rjdebruyn65@gmail.com if you have subject reference. Thanks, RD

Yes, have to keep the mintage numbers in perspective. One thing though when you stated: Because the neck truncation direction/width of an Obv 2, when struck over an Obv 1 or 1a partially finished working die, ir obliterates what was under the Obv 2 strike of the hub on the working die . The Obv2/Obv...

That at least confirms what I have surmised, in that the 1881H Obv 1 is the least common of the three main types. I am a bit surprised that there are relatively so many 1a/1s. My small sample size only has one definite 1a/1 which clearly shows the 'dimple' and one probable (dimple is very faint). Th...

Yep. Have come to conclusion, after assessing some of my 1881s, that the Obv 1a is more common than the Obv 1. I did discover one very nice 1a/1 with some distinctive markers - die cracks, a repunched 'N' in REGINA (not at like the one pictured on this site #3810), some subtle doubling of a few lege...

It astounds me that someone could accept a coin so poorly graded - let alone keep such a coin in its holder. Anything to stroke ones ego I guess. This coin is VF25 tops but personally I would go VF20. RD

Is the 1881H obv 1a large cent rare? The reason I ask is there is no pricing info about this variety on this site, which I thought strange as this variety is certainly not unknown. RD

Thanks for that great explanation Bill. I will need to get into the books to refresh my knowledge on the entire process that was used in the 19th century. It seems that the making of the hub was time consuming and unless the ultimate product (minted coin) was totally unacceptable they would go with ...

I recently started organizing some of my collection. For my Victorian large cents I found myself being quite obsessed with die crack variations. In fact, I discovered some that were quite 'epic' in that they traversed a good portion of the coin. I think I find these interesting because my father was...