copy dies: dies made officially or illegally from either actual coinage dies or coins.
Coronet Head: design type of a head of Liberty with a crown-like ornament. Used on U.S. copper coins from 1816-1857 and U.S. gold coins from 1838-1907.
copy dies Dies made at a later date, usually showing slight differences from the originals. Examples include the reverse of 1804 Class II and III silver dollars and 1831 half cents with the Type of 1840-57 reverse.
Copy dies
Dies made at a later date, usually showing slight differences from the originals. Also used to denote counterfeit dies copied directly from a genuine coin.
Coronet Head ...
Popular Cowboy design - beware of restrikes from copy dies!
1851
Ten Dollars ...
York City entrepreneur (his companies included the QWERTYUIOPress, the Williams Trading Company, and the Trans-Africa Development Company), took the rusted, unserviceable original dies and had August Frank, a Philadelphia firm, make new copy dies by ...
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