If it ain't, it's the only known 1858 quarter with a half dollar obverse. LINK I've never seen a counterfeit seated quarter with the half dollar obverse. Maybe I'll bid. Then again, maybe the seller used the wrong picture.
How can you tell the difference between the obverse of a seated quarter and a seated half dollar when you have no point of reference to indicate the size?
UNITED "STATED" OF AMERICA?????? What is up with the stated rather than states????????????
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It's not a counterfeit, because it's not a coin. There is no such place as the "United Stated of America." That "D" in place of the "S" is intentional and not intended to be a mint mark.
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<< <i>How can you tell the difference between the obverse of a seated quarter and a seated half dollar when you have no point of reference to indicate the size? >>
The Seated Liberty design on each denomination is slightly different. If you know those differences it is easy to recognize the denomination from the obverse even without a size reference.
How can you tell the difference between the obverse of a seated quarter and a seated half dollar when you have no point of reference to indicate the size?
Or it that the joke. >>
Look at the stars. The stars point to the outside on the Half dollar, they point towards each other on the quarter. And, as condor101 pointed out, the figure of Liberty is also slightly different, but a layman might not be able to differentiate between them.
Other places to look at are the drapery by liberty's elbow (On the half dime and dime it joins the leg below the knee a bulges out strongly to the right. On the 20 cent, quarter and dollar it joins the leg below the knee but the edge of the drapery is fairly straight. On the half dollar it joins the leg to the LEFT of the knee.)
The shape of the rock is different on each but hard to describe except on the half were it curves back in strongly to the right before it meets the ground.
The shield on the dollar has three bars in each red stripe, the other denomiations have two (except for one variety of 1873 half dollar which has four).
On the 20 cent LIBERTY is in raised letters on the shield banner.
On the dime the shield is vertical, it is almost vertical on the half dime. On the others it leans well to the left.
I find the haf dime and the dime the hardest to tell apart without a size reference.
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How can you tell the difference between the obverse of a seated quarter and a seated half dollar when you have no point of reference to indicate the size?
Or it that the joke.
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Looks like they tryed to add a "D" Mint mark on it in the Wrong place! when there was no "D" Mint mark on seated coinage anyway
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<< <i>How can you tell the difference between the obverse of a seated quarter and a seated half dollar when you have no point of reference to indicate the size? >>
The Seated Liberty design on each denomination is slightly different. If you know those differences it is easy to recognize the denomination from the obverse even without a size reference.
Good eye,sure is the same obverse.
Al
<< <i>I don't get it...
How can you tell the difference between the obverse of a seated quarter and a seated half dollar when you have no point of reference to indicate the size?
Or it that the joke. >>
Look at the stars.
The stars point to the outside on the Half dollar, they point towards each other on the quarter. And, as condor101 pointed out, the figure of Liberty is also slightly different, but a layman might not be able to differentiate between them.
Ray
The shape of the rock is different on each but hard to describe except on the half were it curves back in strongly to the right before it meets the ground.
The shield on the dollar has three bars in each red stripe, the other denomiations have two (except for one variety of 1873 half dollar which has four).
On the 20 cent LIBERTY is in raised letters on the shield banner.
On the dime the shield is vertical, it is almost vertical on the half dime. On the others it leans well to the left.
I find the haf dime and the dime the hardest to tell apart without a size reference.