Capped half dime - variety help needed - pictures posted

tmot99

For all of those capped bust half dime experts, I am looking for variety / rarity for an 1835 large date, small 5 half dime. How many varieties are there and are there any distinguishing characteristics that can be easily described? I will try to post pictures in the next day or two. I have a first gen NGC MS63 that was a Garrett piece.

JrGMan2004

There are only two 1835 Die marriages that are Large Date and Small 5c. They have the same reverse, and both have a Fancy 8 on the Obverse... the most noticable difference, is if S9 is rotated CW or CCW... either way, it's no better than an R3... pictures would be nice to confirm what marriage it is Give me a PM when you post pictures

coinguy89

I should have known you'd be all over this thread right away George. I'd like to see pics.

tmot99

Give me about 30 minutes and I will have pictures up.

tmot99

Pictures are up. Thanks for the input.

JrGMan2004

Looks to be LM-5.1, an R3... doesn't have any of the die cracks that would signify it as having been the remarriage...

tmot99

Up close and personal, I'm not seeing any die cracks. It doesn't show as clearly on these cruddy photos, but it looks like there is a recut or something on the "5" in "5C". Is that common?