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Does this half dollar look odd to anyone else?

LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
I can't put my finger on it but this draped bust half looks wrong to me. Something in the face and jaw line isn't right but I can't quite tell. Any opinions?

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  • looks too good, I'd stay away. Could be one of those roughed up replicas. The color looks too even, artificially so.
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  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mr. Hall doesn't like it when you put your finger on it. Might leave fingerprints.

    I don't know what you are seeing around the jaw and face, but the color looks like a coin doctor job to me. I'm not up on bust varieties, but this one has a nice repunched "T" in LIBERTY, and a serious die crack between the "1" in the date and the first left star. Someone should be able to diagnose the variety which might be helpful.

    Doug
  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭
    This is one that you have to see up close and personal.

    The reverse is bothering me, especially the denticles.

    Joe.
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What I see in the face is Liberty looks like she has the mumps. It just looks wrong in that area of the face.
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    If it is fake it's pretty good one. Looks like the T is doubled.
    Like this one.

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  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some bust halves look like that, but I don't know enough about the varieties to address that issue. Maybe a bust half specialist will take a peek at the thread and give us an opinion. My curiosity is stirred up now.

    It is so hard to tell from a picture. The rim to the right of the date under the bust could be slightly out of round as well.
    Doug
  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Placid, the die crack is on your example also. Looks like the same obverse. It also has the same die crack on the reverse through the "O" in "OF".

    Looks like you nailed it as a Overton 115.
    Doug

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