1792 Half Disme MS64 for sale
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MS64
In this week’s Great Collections auction
Only five examples graded higher
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Don't see those every day. Good luck!
siliconvalleycoins.com
OMG that's an amazing coin!!!!
Nice give a way. Sign me up
Seriously that is a wonderful piece
Good luck on the sale
Martin
Very nice. Hard to believe there are five graded higher!
ANA LM
USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
wow
As it's in a new tab holder, I would love to know the provenance of that piece.
Commems and Early Type
Stunning but just a bit out of my league:
https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/954946/1792-Flowing-Hair-Half-DimeHalf-Disme-PCGS-MS-64
It is one of the better strikes out there! Look at the breast feathers. Many high grade examples have flat breast feathers.
I unfortunately do not know the provenance, and I purchased it privately in the present holder. I was unable to find it in previous auction records. The strike is remarkable- here are 3 of the 5 higher graded coins I could find in a quick tour of the PCGS website!
One set of dies was used to strike the entire run of 1500 coins- the MS64 coin for sale above must have been struck very early in the run because the die crack through the wing on the reverse is just starting to show but is much more obvious in the three finer examples I posted. A fascinating period in the history of our nation’s coinage- imho
What a great coin!
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Can I put this on layaway for about 25 years so I can gift it to myself when I’m 80?
ANA LM
USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
MS68? WTH?
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
The marks at 1:00 o’clock are those adjustment marks?
Thanks
Martin
That is a stunning example of the issue. Breast feathers are amazingly well struck up.
Provenance is easily found in Heritage auctions .
Commems and Early Type
I found this on the Heritage website but it’s not as thorough as I would like for a nearly 230 year old coin-
Ex: Bartlett Collection (Bowers and Ruddy, 11/1979), lot 2359; Greenwald-Jackson Collections (Bowers and Merena, 9/1995), lot 1177; Rarities Sale (Bowers and Merena, 1/2005), lot 327; Baltimore Auction (Stack's Bowers, 3/2013), lot 2025, which realized $470,000.(Registry values: P9)
Wow! Just, wow!
Why is the word “dime” spelled “disme”?
I believe it is old French for one tenth