Die rotation on 1845 Straits 1/2 Cent

Hi everyone,

I wondered whether anyone knew if this was common on this coin please?

I think it’s fairly rare to find this coin in such nice condition and it has this potential error?

What do you guys think?

Thanks!
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Which error? Can't you make better images with more light?

Citação: "LAFTA"​Hi everyone,
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​I wondered whether anyone knew if this was common on this coin please?
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​I think it’s fairly rare to find this coin in such nice condition and it has this potential error?
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​What do you guys think?
​
​Thanks!
​😎
​
​

​Nice coin, A brief look on the Internet shows a similar one but in worse condition to yours for sale at £8.49,$11.70,€9.93 or ¥1281.47 so I believe that it is uncommon to find but common enough that it is not worth a lot. So I’m my opinion yours is slightly more rare because it is in much better shape than the one on Ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STRAITS-SETTLEMENTS-1-2-CENT-1845-VICTORIA-VF-DIE-ROTATION-WW-RAISED/133534787370?hash=item1f174b272a:g:CBYAAOSw5xZfdjXA


By the by a little off topic are you the LAFTA YouTuber? Because I watch your videos almost on a daily basis. You and other coin Tubers have inspired me to hunt U.K. coins on the side of my World coin hunts the funny thing is that I find two olympics before a Benjamin Bunny. 😀

I recommend you should also check out some of the US,Canadian, Australia and Euro coin Tubers to gain knowledge of the rarer coins you can find in your World coin tin hunts.

In short, I think you are correct. I can not see any other example of your coin that has a die rotation or even mentions that error other than the one mentioned above on Ebay. All the other examples I see look to be normally struck with the proper rotation. Whether your die rotation adds additional value, I can't say. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15523.html

Thanks for the replies everyone,

and I am the LAFTA on YouTube, thanks for the support. 2 Olympics before Benjamin Bunny! 😂

The NGC price guide has this coin marked pretty high when it comes to higher grade examples. This one is pretty nice. I’ll try and get some more/better pictures.

thanks again

LAFTA

Citação: "LAFTA"​Thanks for the replies everyone,
​
​and I am the LAFTA on YouTube, thanks for the support. 2 Olympics before Benjamin Bunny! 😂
​
​The NGC price guide has this coin marked pretty high when it comes to higher grade examples. This one is pretty nice. I’ll try and get some more/better pictures.
​
​thanks again
​
​LAFTA

Thanks ​again where I live (Lincolnshire) commemorative 50p and 2 pounds are hard to come by (Found 14 commemorative 50p and a shocking 3 £2 pound coins) A-Z 10ps are impossible to find so I keep the non-magnetic ones only.On occasion I hunt bags of 1p,2p,5p and 20p hunts and I’ve found a couple of territories and pre 1992 1 and 2p (which I keep) but apart from that I buy my coins from local Auctions and Ebay.


Btw the longest kept commemorative 50p was Olympic archery that I’ve kept since 2012 and only recently found it when I was clearing a drawer out so technically I found 3 Olympics before a Benjamin benny but that was before I started coin collecting. I mainly focus on world coins because I’m from Mexico so I love world coins more but I live in U.K. so I hunt coins here as well.

I know this is an old discussion, but I just stumbled across it today.

 

I have an example of all three of the 1845 Straits Settlements/British East India Company coins (¼ cent KM 1, ½ cent KM 2 and 1 cent KM 3)

 

https://en.numist.com/15222

 

N#15523

 

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For the ½ cent (which is the subject of this discussion thread), if I position the obverse so that Queen Victoria is facing directly to the left (i.e., facing directly to the 9 o'clock position), then the reverse of the coin is rotated a bit from the obverse (the reverse is aligned along the 1 o'clock/7 o'clock axis instead of the expected 12 o'clock/6 o'clock axis (similar to the coin pictured at the beginning of this discussion thread). I am not sure if it matters, but my ½ cent coin is the variety that has “W W” on the truncation of the Queen's bust on the obverse). 

 

The alignment of the reverse with respect to the obverse on my 1845 ¼ cent coin exactly matches that of the ½ cent coin (i.e., the reverse is rotated somewhat with respect to the obverse).

 

Interestingly, the alignment of the reverse with respect to the obverse of my 1845 1 cent coin is essentially perfect medal alignment with no rotation of the reverse with respect to the obverse.

 

Based upon the above, a small amount of reverse rotation with respect to the obverse may not be that rare for the 1845 dated ¼ cent and ½ cent coins. 

 That first link looks like it is missing letter a in link - trying this 

N#15222 

ZacUK - yes, that is the correct link. Sorry about the typo.