It had to happen sooner or later

epc

Across the street, in the NGC Registry, Gene Gardner had the top set of Liberty Seated Half Dimes until he sold his collection about a decade ago. My set became #1 when his was removed. I got a few upgrades since then, but in recent years most of my effort and $$$ have gone to collecting die marriages and die states. Since my set had been pretty far behind Gene's, and because I knew there were better sets over here, I expected eventually to be knocked out of the top spot. That day finally came. User BarrowTH has been building several top sets over there for the past year or so, and now has the #1 seated half dime set. Congrats to him! As for me, I'm still enjoying the hunt for the marriages and states, though it gets harder as that collection grows...

Manifest_Destiny

Cool I'm having fun with my seated quarters in the registry, but I know I'll never get to the top, even if Hansen wasn't around. I'm at #6 now and the best I can eventually do is maybe #3. Maybe.

Bikergeek

Tagging @BarrowTH ! In my little world of Capped Bust Half Dimes, he's made some significant moves lately, including beating me (and others) out on a very nice piece, the 1835 LM-12 in PCGS MS65 at Heritage recently. He also passed me on a (small) set in the PCGS registry.

I don't have much to say for now except, "hey, nice to meet ya - congrats." :-)

Pnies20

@Bikergeek said:
Tagging @BarrowTH ! In my little world of Capped Bust Half Dimes, he's made some significant moves lately, including beating me (and others) out on a very nice piece, the 1835 LM-12 in PCGS MS65 at Heritage recently. He also passed me on a (small) set in the PCGS registry.

I don't have much to say for now except, "hey, nice to meet ya - congrats." :-)

Massive buy! If I understand correctly it was the most spent on a half dime ever?

oih82w8

One should not want the spotlight on them for an extended period of time. Says someone who has never been under the spotlight.

Your set, @epc is a major accomplishment and you should be very proud of it.

epc

@Pnies20 said: "Massive buy! If I understand correctly it was the most spent on a half dime ever?"
Well, the 1870-S sold for a little more recently. And some 1802 higher grade examples have seen high dollar results. Did you mean the most for a CB?

Pnies20

@epc said:
@Pnies20 said: "Massive buy! If I understand correctly it was the most spent on a half dime ever?"
Well, the 1870-S sold for a little more recently. And some 1802 higher grade examples have seen high dollar results. Did you mean the most for a CB?

Yes

Bikergeek

@Pnies20 It's definitely not the most on a capped bust half dime - there are higher record prices on the super-gems. See the prices at right on this page: https://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/category/capped-bust-half-dime-1829-1837/687

To my knowledge, though, it's the highest price for an MS65 or under. And I personally know that it could have gone higher, if I hadn't bought a brand-new Gold Wing motorcycle just a few weeks before the 1835 LM-12 came up at Heritage. Sigh.

The record, according to PCGS Auctionprices (which, of course, cannot track private-treaty sales) is from the August 2022 Simpson-Bender sale of an 1832 MS68+ CAC coin for $93k. Pic below for the folks who don't like to click links...