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CANADA: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE cent, 1891. PCGS MS63

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CANADA: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE cent, 1891. PCGS MS63
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CANADA: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE cent, 1891, KM-7, obverse 2, large date, large leaf variety, PCGS graded MS63 RD. The year 1891 was a year of great change for the large cent series. The modeler and engraver to the Royal Mint, Leonard C. Wyon, died in August and George William Des Saulles replaced him. Perhaps because of this change of engravers, the dies of 1891 show several design modifications, making them arguably the most interesting year of the Victorian Cent series. First, the year 1891 occurred in the middle of the change from obverse 2 to obverse 3. Also in this year, the mint changed from the 1884 reverse, on which they experimented with two different date sizes, to the 1891 reverse, causing three very different reverse types. Since they married both obverse types to each of the three reverse types, six different 1891 cents exist today.