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Flowing Hair Bust Half guys? 1806 opinion / value?

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Pulled a completely out of place item from an older collection today. Old school white paper holder.

So many varieties here.

Paper holder seems to be imparting some nice tone, but I wouldn't be surprised if the obverse had been cleaned a long, long time ago.

So...

A) What's the variety?
B ) Guess to grade?
C) Value?

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1806 O.115a, R-1 rarity common
    VF20 details, old clean
    $600 in graded slab, half that details slab - could go either way

    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 3, 2019 12:22PM

    Of interest is the repunched T in LIBERTY, and the obv die crack and chip at 0, once called a Q date for late 115a, 116, and 117.

    edit - Tompkins number is T-17, latest die stage reverse is lapped (don't have book handy).

    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks, @Nysoto . I thought that doubled T was pretty neat, and the obvious foot on the 0.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice one Weiss!

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a DRAPED bust!

    Hmmmmph! :p

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @topstuf said:
    It's a DRAPED bust!

    Hmmmmph! :p

    Whatever. At 213 years old you'd be draped instead of flowing, too.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss said:

    @topstuf said:
    It's a DRAPED bust!

    Hmmmmph! :p

    Whatever. At 213 years old you'd be draped instead of flowing, too.

    Did you just type, "WHATEVER "?

    :#:#:#

  • DelawareDoonsDelawareDoons Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am at VF20, straight grade, a nice example netted a shade for the old cleaning.

    "It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."

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