You're right and I was so absorbed in the top right and bottom left that I missed it till later.

After a close look at a couple coins I discovered the repunched N is inverted from the original. The first N has a strong upper serif while the repunched N has the weak serif to the top.

I don't know the correct answer and don't know if anyone does. If it is a die crack then we should be able to find coins which show some progression of the crack. I would also think it would go right out to the rim, most cracks seem to start at the rim and go in. Perhaps it was a piece of metal stru...

SHOULD BE A 1882...my bad.

Thanks to the advertisement on the front page of this site I decided to make the 110 mile trip to North Battleford and picked up this coin. http://www.coinsandcanada.com/forum/class/test/DSCN5827b.jpeg http://www.coinsandcanada.com/forum/class/test/DSCN5827c.jpeg http://www.coinsandcanada.com/forum/...

The CNA auction's value was $2,000,000. I am not sure what the Torex auctions average but I thought they would be between one and two million. I would expect Canada's sales to be a hundreth of US sales. How many US sales hit $200 million at one sale? The US is obviously the "King" when it ...

Nice one.

Hi Aidan, I did change the link. I think this is a die clash, not ghosting which could not be as sharp.

Found two of these while I searched for missing "S" variety. the lion's tongue touches the queen's chin.

Very Nice...good trade.

Michael, thanks for sharing.