Excellent article on the 1925 penny in this months CAB mag. by D. L. Briggs, edited by Fred Lever.
Apparently, all is not what it seems, when it comes to mintage figures and the number of die combinations, as well as scarcity of same.
For those interested in predecimals, I think it opens up a new avenue of collecting.
I probably got lucky, of the six die pairs highlighted, my four examples each aligned to a unique die pair. :yahoo:
Have not seen the article yet (though I did see the original draft before it was Fredified). Collecting die pairs is great fun (congrats on having 4 of them), only problem is it gets really expensive as by the time you manage to acquire every combination in a decent enough grade to see the die markers your bank balance is $0.00. Usually you end up with dozens of each of the common die pairs as you try and get that last elusive pair.
For now I'm happy with what's on the table, but you know how it goes, eventually the hunt for the other two will begin!
Not so long ago I bought a slabbed AU55 because of the cuds on E and Y. It was an impulse buy and thought I paid too much, but it turned out to be one of the scarcer die pairs, obverse 1, reverse A. Another raw example at gVF is also one of the scarcer varieties, being obverse 5, reverse D.
Sometimes the luck is not all bad :)
I have 2 x 1925 pennys , and know nothing about the die varieties ,
all I know is one has the broken leg on the n and the other one has the full leg on the n .
some pic,s of the different dies varieties would be handy thanks .
Hi Kel, easy way to see all the pictures and tables detailing the varieties is simply buy the magazine. Its all there.
Cheers, Fred.
thanks Fred , will do