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Hmmm... I've always just gone by the coinfacts website... I draw a straight line up from the last leaf. A Large Letters runs into the "S" in States, a Medium Letters has the "S" completely to the left of the line: Based on this, I'm seeing Medium Letters...

only one i collected......

Sold to someone here years ago.....

Is it due to:
the design?
affordability?
ties to your childhood?

Viewing bust halves for the first time as a child blew my mind. I remember that they were in an album but some were loose because I remember stacking perhaps 5-6 of them and admiring the edge lettering and design. The dark, original toning and the design itself with the lettered edge had this aura of age, beauty, and scarcity that left me awestruck. Ever since, I've liked dark toning and the feeling of age and originality that it conveys.

I love this photo, and it takes me back to that first exposure to their beauty when I was 9 or 10 years old. I own about a dozen of them today, yet I've never collected them by date or die marriage. They're also quite affordable in low to mid grades.

August 21'st is coming quickly. It really is a beautiful coin, anybody else in for one?