Definitive Reference For Indian Cent Die Varieties

DEFINITIVE REFERENCE FOR INDIAN CENT DIE VARIETIES

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1887 Variety 22


Obverse 27	Reverse AB

Obverse Diagnostics

Date Position

clash Mark In Front Of Eye

Reverse Diagnostics

Die Cracking and Partial Cud Between 6:00 and 8:00

Clash Mark Through The C Of CENT

Clash Marks To The Right Of The Denomination

Obverse 27 is observed with date placement at B and has acquired a clash mark in front of the eye of Miss Liberty from a clashing event with Reverse AB.

Reverse AB has acquired clash marks through the C of CENT; above and to the left of the O of ONE and to the right of the denomination from a clashing event with Obverse 27. Reverse AB develops the following die cracking and partial cud:
1. Heavy die cracking between 6:00 and 8:00, with the formation of a partial cud between 6:00 and 7:30.

Comments: The above plate coin is the third known to this author of Variety 22, with all three residing between the grades of AG3 and G4.

I have chosen to use the term 'partial cud' to describe the area between 6:00 and 7:30, since this area has not yet broken from the die body. Although the field area, arrow quill and ribbon end reside at a higer level in comparison to the rest of the coin, the heavy die crack from 6:00 remains intact. If the section between 6:00 and 7:30 was truly a retained cud and was separate from the die body, then there would be only the raised edge of the break and not a die crack.

Plate coin: Keith Bock Collection, G4