1795 Half Dime - Plate coin for Logan/McCloskey

tmot99

I posted my new purchase from the Mid-America show in another thread. This 1795 half dime is the LM-6 plate coin and comes from the Ed Price Collection. When NGC certified this collection, they put out this press release:

"Numismatic Guaranty Corporation is pleased to announce that it has certified the superb collection of early United States half dimes assembled by Mr. Ed Price of New Jersey. Comprising 31 coins from 1794 through 1805, this collection is without peer for both rarity and completeness.

Every known variety is represented, and each specimen in Price's set served as the plate coin for the standard reference on this series (Federal Half Dimes 1792-1837, by Russell J. Logan and John W. McCloskey). NGC has attributed all of Price's half dimes by Logan-McCloskey numbers under its VarietyPlus grading and attribution service. "

Thanks to BillJones for this information: LM-6 has a rarity of R-6 with only 13-30 known. At that time, the finest they had seen was this VF coin.

Baley

Huge huge coin (well, actually, kind of small, but you know what I mean)

Congratulations!!

lordmarcovan

mgoodm3

Early half dimes are very cool.

tjkillian

Wow, very impressive. All half dimes are cool, but early ones are the coolest.

Tom

nederveit

Sorry, was thinking of ER's (not an ad):

RYK

Very cool!

FoundingFather

Great one, congrats!

kryptonitecomics

That must have set you back a pretty .....ahh nickel!!! I love it...and the story and pedigree behind the coin makes it

tmot99

Yeah, it certainly wasn't cheap. If it wasn't the plate coin, I wouldn't have done it. There was a lot more material there that I could have spent the money on.

tmot99

ttt for the day crowd

Dennis88

jdimmick

Very Nice looking early Half dime!!

relayer

Barry

Nice!

Barndog

plate coins are very special. I have two from the Logan-McCloskey book (1830 LM-4.2 and 1833 LM-3.2). The former was acquired at a Heritage Auction at the Denver ANA last year and the latter through Brad Karoleff's mail bid sale in July of 2006.

dorkkarl

you have a TRUE NUMISMATIC TREASURE there! keep it no matter what!!!

K S

Shortgapbob

A beautiful specimen! Congrats on the purchase.

speety

Very Nice!

Cladiator

You've got yourself one very special half dime, congratulations are in order. Special in condition, rarity and pedigree

I too am lucky enough to own a Logan/McCloskey plate coin (1829 LM4).

Athena

What is a "plate coin"?

Cladiator

<< <i>What is a "plate coin"? >>

A plate coin is the actual coin that was imaged and displayed in the reference book as the specific example of that particular die marriage or re-marriage. Pick up any Logan/McCloskey Federal Half Dimes book and you'll be able to see any of the 4 plate coins mentioned in this thread.

Athena

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<< <i>What is a "plate coin"? >>

A plate coin is the actual coin that was imaged and displayed in the reference book as the specific example of that particular die marriage or re-marriage. Pick up any Logan/McCloskey Federal Half Dimes book and you'll be able to see any of the 4 plate coins mentioned in this thread. >>



Thanks, that makes sense now that I think about it!

Longacre

Monster coin. Great!!

Dennis88

notwilight

Some background.

tmot99

Ok, I can see that I'm not the only one that doesn't check the dates on the original post. This is from June 2005. I have, in fact, sold it. It sat in the buyer's inventory for awhile. It was a worthy dealer, though. I traded it for an 1801 half dime and then some.