Capped Bust Half Dime Attribution Challenge - April 2025

Bikergeek

Hi friends! I think I skipped March with a challenge, but I wanted to keep you on your toes, so here's a mid-April challenge. Since it's tax month, and some of you may be taking a beating from the IRS, I wanted to keep this one affordable. (Yes, it's available right now on a sales portal near you).

For new readers: the challenge is to identify the Logan-McCloskey (LM) variety (i.e., die marriage or remarriage) for this half dime.

A die marriage is a unique pairing of one obverse die with one reverse die. Remarriages occur when those dies are reunited after one of them was paired with a different mate for a period of time. Marriages are identified by LM-n where n is the marriage identifier (e.g., LM-11). If the dies were separated and then remarried, this adds a decimal number: "LM-n.y" shows the number of the remarriage in the y position (e.g., LM-13.2).

How to attribute? The Logan-McCloskey book "Federal Half Dimes 1792-1837" is authoritative. Or, you can use the Attribute section of EverythingHalfDimes.com. Some folks have their own tools or cheat sheets.

Cladiator

Good Lord man, you've found yourself a true beauty there lol. The kind of coin only a mother could love (or a half dime nerd) I think I've got it attributed but won't spoil anything here so everyone else can have some fun with it too. I'll pm you with my guess.

jesbroken

I'll do the same, Clad.
Jim