what kind of doubling on a 1831 large cent

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That does seem like it was stated reversed almost like when he wrote it he meant the planchet or coin not the die. Maybe it's a mistake in his wording. I can't interpret it any other way

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I didn't realise that Longacre had designed that large Cent. I only knew about the Indian Cent design he was involved in. But that type of doubling doesn't carry any extra premium for them. Looks interesting, just not a doubled/tripled die. Even though it isn't as valuable as you thought, the conversation about this type of die is priceless as others later on will read this and help fill in knowlege that even I didn't know about the large Cent. So thanks for bringing the up. All learn here as one shares with the other and all can read this later when they become new members or you can do a search at the upper coppercoins tool bar and find this subject later. Always nice to keep the search simple as you have less other articles to read to find this one.

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He didn't design the large cent but the indian cents had that doubling so they named it after him.

I think of Longacre doubling as if you were designing a punch and wanted it to be tougher so you added the lower shelf going halfway to the top to strengthen it but if you punched something hard enough that lower shelf showed. Sound reasonable

Large cents were designed and redesigned so several designers had a hand in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_cent_(United_States_coin)

Off the subject... I was reading about general Patton. At one point when he was younger he wanted to spoof some other soldiers that were exploring ruins in Mexico so he mutilated some large cents then planted them and let the others find them. They all were questioning why the big coins would be in the ruins and he got a kick out of knowing he fooled them. So next time we see a home made error we can call it a Patton error.

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oops...

He probably smashed lincolns not large cents, it was in 1916. He was probably smashing some 1909 S-VDBs

http://www.pattonhq.com/unknown/chap02.html

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It would seem more logical that the wider letters were not deep enough. So Longacre struck the die with the deeper thinner letters? That way the depth is what they were going for. Just a hunch. Maybe someone else will chime in on this.