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Yehud with portrait and owl (GBC 426 - TJC 4 to 13)
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245 specimens listed
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THE 3 BEST SPECIMENS
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1. H-426 obverse dies
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Die
O1
Composite picture:
Connected to R1:
At this step, a growing die break appears on R1. Die O1 is now in a degraded state:
Connected to R5 (O1 is in a very degraded state):
Connected to RX
Connected to R6 (O1 is in an extremely degraded state):
Connected to R7:
Connected to R14:
Connected to R17:
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Die
O2
Composite picture:
This amazing die is debated in the David Hendin's column (The Celator, August 2007)
Connected to R2:
Same obverse area:
Connected to R3 (O2 is in an extremely degraded state):
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Die O2a Crude imitation of O2
Connected to:
Ra
Rb
Rc
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....Die O2b Crude imitation of O2
Connected to:
Ra
Re
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Die O2c Crude imitation of O2
Connected to Ra
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Other probable crude imitation of die O2 also connected to Ra:
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Die
O3
Composite picture:
a) Connected to R4, before the die break:
b) Connected to R4, after the die break:
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Die O4
Connected to R9
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Die O5
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..Die O6
a) Connected to R3
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..Die O7
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..Die O8
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Die O9
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The obverse die is not visible (off centered or in too poor condition)
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2. H-426 reverse dies
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Die R1
Connected to O1
a) Before the die break:
b) After the die break:
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Die R2
Connected to O2
Same obverse area:
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Die R3: Tiny owl, large letters.
Connected to O1
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Die RX: Tiny owl, large letters. Very similar to R3, but two breaks at 16:00
Connected to O2
Connected to O5
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Die R4: Entirely retrograde
Connected to O3
a) Before the die break
b) After the die break
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Die R5: Variety: The flower is upright
Connected to O1
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Die R6: Variety: Retrograde inscription (Type 1)
Connected to O1
a) Before the die break:
b) During the die break (very sudden, not progressive at all):
c) After the die break:
The reverse of the following coin has been ONLY struck by the right part of the broken die!
NOTE: I am not sure it was deliberate. Because the workers struck coins hurriedly, they probably did not immediately remark that the die had just been broken (see previous coin) and that the left part of the broken die (probably) fell. But I am pretty sure that the following coin is the last specimen ever struck by this pair of dies (the portrait on the obverse die - O1 - was ruined anyway)
Another specimen is known with a strike error:
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...Die R7: Variety: Very crude
Connected to O1
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..Die R8
Connected to O2
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Die R9: Retrograde and crude inscription
Connected to O4
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Die R10: Very crude inscription
Connected to O4
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Die R11: The 1st and 3rd letters are transposed
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Dies R12 to R18: Each of the following specimens seems to have been struck by a different die