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.jpg) walkingdudeVeteran Member
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Not sure where to ask what the different descriptions you see on Ebay, ie. I bought a penny with the marking K11, K12 and so on. What does this K stand for? Would Someone direct me to the proper forum for these types of questions? Thanks in advance
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GabeSenior Member
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What you describe on your cent is damage or an alteration made after the coin left the mint. Since the markings could have been done by anyone, it could mean thousands of things. I think it is going to be hard for anyone here to know what K11 or K12 stand for.
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From the way I see things and other's ... (on E-Bay, description/s)
The "K" stands for "clock hand position", say for example:
Best seen from "K 3:00" or like 'Gabe' stated: K also stands for 1,000 as in Y2K = 2000. (from K11 or K12 could mean from 11,000 to 12,000)
Think what hes asking is: say as example: clipped from K11 to K12 ... which would get me to look at the a coin from about 11 o clock to about 12 o clock, position/s. (using the face of a clock - for reference)
Hope this helped.
2nd part of your question ... I ask most of my 'questions' in:
General Discussion - Die Varieties
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Questions about Die Varieties
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General Discussion - Error Coins
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Error Coin Questions
as seen from the Main Forums' page.
then again ... you can post questions almost anywere and some-one will get back to you ... we all good about that here ...
Cheers and have a good stay ... welcome aboard ... hope to see many more post/s from you.
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 coppercoinsSite Admin
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K3, as it relates to coins, generally means that a problem or variety originates from the 3:00 position of a coin. In class 5, pivoted hub doubled dies, the K refers to the clock position on the design that the pivot point exists. The widely known 1995 doubled die cent has a point of rotation near the date of the coin, so it is described as being from K4 - the 4:00 position of the design.
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walkingdudeVeteran Member
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| pennyhound wrote: |
From the way I see things and other's ... (on E-Bay, description/s)
The "K" stands for "clock hand position", say for example:
Best seen from "K 3:00" or like 'Gabe' stated: K also stands for 1,000 as in Y2K = 2000. (from K11 or K12 could mean from 11,000 to 12,000)
Think what hes asking is: say as example: clipped from K11 to K12 ... which would get me to look at the a coin from about 11 o clock to about 12 o clock, position/s. (using the face of a clock - for reference)
Hope this helped.
2nd part of your question ... I ask most of my 'questions' in:
General Discussion - Die Varieties
then again ... you can post questions almost anywere and some-one will get back to you ... we all good about that here ...
Cheers and have a good stay ... welcome aboard ... hope to see many more post/s from you. |
Thanks,
I have a lot of questions and pics too once I figure out my camera's macro mode. 
I'll have to look at the penny again and see exactly what K's he wrote on it, I thought about the time too but I think there was a k-15, unless that would be military.
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walkingdudeVeteran Member
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| Gabe wrote: |
| What you describe on your cent is damage or an alteration made after the coin left the mint. Since the markings could have been done by anyone, it could mean thousands of things. I think it is going to be hard for anyone here to know what K11 or K12 stand for. |
True,
I should have wrote what the k's where listed as on the flip, I'll post a pic once I figure out the camra's macro, get an account at the pic place I seen posted here.
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walkingdudeVeteran Member
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| coppercoins wrote: |
| K3, as it relates to coins, generally means that a problem or variety originates from the 3:00 position of a coin. In class 5, pivoted hub doubled dies, the K refers to the clock position on the design that the pivot point exists. The widely known 1995 doubled die cent has a point of rotation near the date of the coin, so it is described as being from K4 - the 4:00 position of the design. |
See other messages about the penny then all will see what I'm talking about.
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GabeSenior Member
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Oh, I see what the question was. I thought the OP stated that the coin itself had the marking on it...
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| pennyhound wrote: |
From the way I see things and other's ... (on E-Bay, description/s)
K also stands for 1,000 as in Y2K = 2000. (from K11 or K12 could mean from 11,000 to 12,000)
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Not to go off-topic, but thought I'd interject a bit of computer history.
The term "K" comes from kilobyte, not 1000 bytes, but 1024 bytes -- 2 to the 10th power. Common usage has made K = 1000, but us old computer jockeys always think of 1024 when K is mentioned.
Also, M and G, for meg (2 to the 20th) and gig (2 to the 30th), have the same basic origin. A 1 gig harddrive is commonly thought to have an even billion bytes of storage, but it actually has 1,073,741,824.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:43 pm |
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I looked at the flip and yes it is the face of a clock. 
k-5 k10 k-11
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