Neat 1795 Half Dime, Post photos of your flowing hair coins if you have any. :)

CarlWohlforth

This one just passed through my hands. I liked it more than other, newer, more expensive coins. There is something about a US coin with a date starting with 17.



Please tell me more about this coin or post a photo of a US coin from the 1700s...

mirabela

Oh, wow! Can't tell you much more than this -- I agree, there is something magically compelling about 18th century US coinage. The country was still a very young experiment.

MrEureka

Unfortunately not mine, but at least I get to sell it...

CarlWohlforth

Sweet coin Andy! I like the strike and preservation. I guess you have a good job.

ms70

PCGS VF30

Cladiator

<< <i>Please tell me more about this coin >>

You have a 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dime. Variety is LM10/V4a, R3. I'd grade it at a VG8 Obverse with a G6 reverse.

This die marriage is the one and only use of obverse die (#8). The thin stars are the result of die lapping due to heavy clashing early in the die's life. You're coin is a later die state with the obverse cud from TY to S9. In an early die state coin this would only be a crack. There are a handfull of other cracks that you can probably pick out with a loupe but in a heavily circulated piece as this they are very difficult to find in a digital image. The reverse die (G) was also only used in this one die marriage. The reverse has 14 leaves and 5 berries on each side of the wreath. However, on circulated coins as yours one leaf on the left can be very hard if not impossible to identify as it was superimposed over another. This leaf or pair of leafs is the one that begins below the left wing and continues over the wing.

Apparently there are highly deceptive counterfeits of this particular coin out there. Made by the spark erosion process and reflecting the late die state coins.

TomB

Here's a half dollar that is VF20 and problem-free.

bhartman35

I've got to agree that 18th century U.S. coinage is really something special. The only piece that's ever passed through my hands is a 1796 dollar that's getting graded (and hopefully not body-bagged) by ANACS right now. Hopefully I'll get it back next week. Then I'll take pictures. (The Vivitar camera I had when I had the coin in person sucked at taking pictures, because it didn't have autofocus.) Hopefully I'll still be able to find this thread by then.

CarlWohlforth

Thanks for the info Cladiator!!

Thanks for the photos and comments everybody.

palm

RYK

tmot99

Awesome coin. I'd love to have that as part of my collection. Here's mine. It's the plate coin for the Logan-McCloskey LM-6 variety. Sorry for the lousy pictures. I need to work on this coin, but I gotta get it out of the bank and jsut haven't done it. It also resides in an NGC slab which adds to the difficulty.

rhedden

I've posted this before, but here it is again - my AU 1795 half dime with original luster and album toning, and several gigantic digs on the obverse.