I have a scanner I purchased several years ago I spent a bit of money at the time. Its a Epson perfection 4490 Photo with digital ICE Technology. My settings are Professional Mode, Auto exposure type: Photo, image type: 24 bit color, resolution: 800 dpi. These settings seem to work good for my pictu...

moneyhoney, I use a scanner to capture my images of coins as my photo skills are nil.

Alberta and Saskatchewan both joined Confederation at the same time 1905. Here's a Token of the school I attended for grade school Victoria School built in 1889 making it the first multi room school in the Northwest Territories at the time, Moose Jaw was founded in 1908 and became an instant thrivin...

Personally I would spend the money to get them certified by a well known grading company and enter them in a top Canadian Auction house

It looks either PL or SP its not MS in my opinion

If you live in Canada I would use the Canadian grading Companies I think they would be cheaper. I use PCGS True View hard slabs for coins it costs around $75.00 - $100.00 each with shipping both ways depending on how many coins a person sends in at a time. It would be cheaper for me to use CCCS hard...

$4.50 each in trends

I think you have both round + pointed are they cross or cross bow tie?

The 1909 ML (round) C/B is worth a little money even in VG-8 $250.00 in the Charlton Catalogue.

Looks like a cracked planchet to me?

I think a person would need the coin in hand as your last picture doesn't look doubled

I think your correct in saying its a doubled H, it looks like its doubled to me also, there is a picture of one in the Charlton Catalogue for Canadian Coins. Small H over Small (SH/H). The die cracks are useful for Die Trackers tracking the different stages the coin die goes through as to when the d...

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Once you get on to it things come easy, if you study your coin for die cracks or doubled letters then go to the site put your arrow on ID my coin don't push on it and some options will come up like your die crack @ leaf 11 go to ID my reverse the reverse will come up push on leaf 11 it will show eve...

That helps SurlyLung, the die crack you showed is actually leaf 11 but that's all good as I think it is a Haxby PC59-33- 17 + E19. If you are not familiar with the Haxby site go to (Haxby Catalogue of the Canadian 1859 Large Cent) when there push on Haxby numbers and find PC59-33, 17 + E19 it will h...

Your picture's of the Reverse and Obverse are a little blurry is that a die crack at the bottom of leaf 9?

If there are any die cracks on the Obverse or Reverse maybe you could make mention of it as they are hard to see if any on your pictures that is a good clue to seeing what you might have.

Jim