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messydesk
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This just showed up yesterday. 1827/6 AU53.
John
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
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Very nice coin...Interesting reverse die crack....Cheers, RickO
nice and dusty!
Very nice pickup!
I like it.
I love that dark dusty gray look. Sweet coin!
Nice coin!
Latin American Collection
Beautiful Bust Half and a overdate to boot!
Great choice, John. Certainly bean-worthy.
There were three die marriages. Yours is an O.101. But you knew that.
Lance.
What I find most interesting is the depiction of lady liberty. She appears to be a beefy gal with a sizeable bosom. Its very different from most other depictions I've seen of her.
Wow nice pickup
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Nice O.101!
Great pick up!
Dave
Yup.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
A nice one John.
Lady Liberty and other devices were modified many times by the Mint. The goal was always to improve strike-up. Sadly the results usually failed.
Along the way the Mint toyed with letter and numeral sizes and style and performed surgery to fix blunders that often made things worse.
Mint adjustments, across many series (not just bust halves), are aspects that make collecting early federal coins so fun. Varieties were blatant, not minor graving tweaks hard to discern.
Lance.
Nice looking coin.
Speaking of beefy, check out the matron head large cent!
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
Nice original looking coin.
Darnfine specimen and killer-diller photos.