I saw some really cool bust half dollars today
LanLord
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One of my dealers made a recent purchase of a lot of busts.
There was a cool 1794 and 1795 both in vf+, the 95 may have been ef.
Sorry, no 1796 or 97 though.
Quite a few draped bust halves and a bunch of busts. I picked up a few of the busts including a nice 1838 in ef+, a 1808/7 and a 1818/17 both in ef+/au (actually those are on layaway as I overspent my budget, so I don't actually have em in hand yet. Maybe next month.
Unfortunately, who ever owned these coins before, cleaned the hell out of some of the busts, but fortunately not all of them. The ones I picked were nicely toned, but some of the scrubbed ones I would have liked to have picked up, if they weren't so bright.
I've never seen anything like it, there would be a nicely toned coin, right next to a bright fresh one. Too bad they couldn't keep their mits off of all of them.
There was a cool 1794 and 1795 both in vf+, the 95 may have been ef.
Sorry, no 1796 or 97 though.
Quite a few draped bust halves and a bunch of busts. I picked up a few of the busts including a nice 1838 in ef+, a 1808/7 and a 1818/17 both in ef+/au (actually those are on layaway as I overspent my budget, so I don't actually have em in hand yet. Maybe next month.
Unfortunately, who ever owned these coins before, cleaned the hell out of some of the busts, but fortunately not all of them. The ones I picked were nicely toned, but some of the scrubbed ones I would have liked to have picked up, if they weren't so bright.
I've never seen anything like it, there would be a nicely toned coin, right next to a bright fresh one. Too bad they couldn't keep their mits off of all of them.
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