DEFINITIVE REFERENCE FOR INDIAN CENT DIE VARIETIES


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1865 Fancy 5 Variety 27






Obverse 23

Reverse AT



Obverse Diagnostics



Date Position

Reverse Diagnostics



Reverse AT Die Crack Mapping


Cud between 1:45 and 3:15


Obverse 23 is observed date placement at C.

Reverse AT is rotated 12 degrees clockwise and develops a cud between 1:45 and 3:15.  Reverse AT develops the following die cracks:
1.  Die crack from the denticles at 12:30 into the top right of the shield.
2.  Die crack extending from the southernmost point of the cud downward through the wreath to the middle arrowhead.
3.  Light die crack from the left side of the shield into the field above the left wreath.

Comments:  The reverse AT cud was first identified in the book 'The Design Cud', by Paul Marvin and Arnold Margolis.  The Marvin and Margolis reference number is 1C-1865-2R.

Keith Bock was extremely kind in contacting this author in regard to submitting the above plate coin in order to illustrate variety 27 for this book.

Plate coin:  Keith Bock, G4

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