1801 Half Dollar - new variety

Nysoto

There is a current ebay listing #1389028750 of a "1801 Half Dollar" that I do not recognize from the Overton book. IT LOOKS STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO A 1807 O-105 (check the date and star to Liberty relationship). What do you think? a new die variety? or?

Bill

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Gilbert

Sorry, I can't help. I am unable to discern very much from that image, and (using the Overton book, and I use Peterson also) there just isn;t enough detail present, that I can see, to even begin trying to attribute that coin. Honestly, I can't read the date with any assuredness.

BillJones

The date looks like it’s been altered to me. The “1” slants in suspiciously like a “7”, and if the other diagnostics are consistent with that Overton variety, it’s an altered date.

Having had experience with these pieces as a type collector I’d say the die work is all wrong for an 1801. The 1801 half dollars had deeper relief. For most of 1806 and all of 1807 the relief was far lower on the Draped Bust half dollars than it had been for the earlier years.

This coin has definitely been altered.