Post your early halves!!!!!

USAFRETWI

Really like the draped bust and flowing hair halves, post them if you got em!!!!

Steve27

BillJones

PCGS EF-45. This is about as perfect as it gets for this grade.



This 1806 half dollar is graded AU-58. It has a lot of luster and has a better than average strike for the date.

RebelRon

Wow!......NICE!

USAFRETWI

Very Nice Bill, love that 95

maibockaddict

grip

Just won this one yesterday DLRC.

maibockaddict

maibockaddict

slumlord98

Hmm, I can't get photobucket to work. I'll try again later. Is there now a different method to posting pics from photobucket? I can't get it to work.

messydesk

Oh, wait, you said your early halves. Never mind.

maibockaddict

<< <i>Hmm, I can't get photobucket to work. I'll try again later. Is there now a different method to posting pics from photobucket? I can't get it to work. >>



I don't have any photobucket problems...

grip

messydesk
Do you have a reverse to that beauty?

Goldbully

Don't let Lewy see this thread!!!

Lewy

Too late Bully........I'm going to contaminate this thread right now, and outshine that 1794 of messydesk's with this beauty from 1807.

Is there some way that I can blame the appearance of this coin on my scanner or the lighting or something like that?

Actually (in hand), it is a beautiful coin. If it wasn't for the cleanings, alterations, and wear, it would be in MS status.

O-103a.

messydesk

<< <i>messydesk
Do you have a reverse to that beauty? >>


Wish I did. This is from the Dale Friend collection display that PCGS had at FUN. I shot this through a display case at their booth with my point 'n' shoot.

Mesquite

Lewy

Another 1807...this time.....as they say on eBay..... the 'very rare' (R-2) O-110.

maibockaddict

fivecents

Baley

Here's a small group I put together a few years ago..

pcgs69

Lewy

That is one heck of a nice collection you've got there Baley. I do think that the draped bust is my favorite obverse, and you have some beautiful examples. I copied your picture (that you posted of your collection), blew it up and fell in love.
Now I understand why the flowing hairs are so difficult to locate.....someone has them all. Very nice group pcgs69. I do like them very much.

Here is 1806 O-120:

kaz

Some beautiful halves in this thread. My Small Head is not as nice as PCGS69's, but here it is:

drddm

Here is Dale's 1794 Half Dollar PCGS MS61............AMAZING!!!!

kaz

My type DBH:

kaz

My girls are pretty happy to rub elbows with Dale's 1794


That's one amazing coin!!

Lewy

Good thought Kaz, let me hurry any get one on this same page, wish I had an 1807 as nice as yours to post but at least yours is between that 1794 and mine, so the contrast will not appear quite as stark.

Here is my last 1807 (O-101)

123cents

PCGS graded Small 3.

JRocco

Lewy

Fantastic coin JR. What is that thing? At first I thought it was a 104a, then it looked like a 104b, but now it sorta looks like a cross between the two. Cud over U, and looks like a retained cud over ITE. SUPER COOL whatever you call it.

JRocco

Hey Lewy
Good to talk to you again
This one isn't at the "b" die state just yet
1806/5 O-104a R5
This is the third use of this obverse die and the fifth use of the reverse die.
This obverse die was used, annealed, overdated, hardened and then used again.

Lewy

Thanks very much for the closeup and the info JR. I knew you would have something intelligent as well as highly interesting to say about that coin. Oh, I just love that coin.....it is a good thing that i am wearing a bib while reading this thread. (Please add me to your will).

Lewy

We are not going to let this one peter out yet are we? I am still waiting to see close ups of JR's avatar coin, and will not consider myself to have led a full life until I witness it.

Here is 1803 O-103

Lewy

Come on dudes & dudettes, I only have a couple left, but I know there is a vast trove of these things (in high grade as well), hidden deep in the inner sanctums of your vaults.

Here is 1805 O-110.

JRocco

Hey Lewy,
My avatar coin is my 1795/1795, 3 leaf flowing hair half.
It is an R4+ and the only 1795 with a 3 leaf cluster under each wing.
This variety shows a strong double cut date with the first cut much lower.
It also has a nice recut BE in LIBERTY and of course the heavy die break on the
reverse causing the coin to have 2 distinctly different planes as seen in the
difference between the words UNITED and STATES. Fun coin.

kaz

Some more great coins from Jrocco and Lewy.. I'm totally out... very educational and the closeup photos are neat too!

Lewy

Ooooooooooooh.......Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah. That is without a doubt the most exhilarating flowing hair that I have ever seen JR. Thanks very, very much for posting it. I continue to search high and low for one just like it.

JRocco

Thanks Lewy and kaz.
Hey Lewy, I think you have a real strong insight into these classic ladies.
Just for curiosity, what approximate grade would you put on my 1795?

DNADave

PQType

Lewy

JR, I honestly don't know the first thing about grading other than to compare what I have seen in holders and what I have seen posted on threads.

Based on those comparisons, and what I believe to be an obverse brought to inconsistent relief, (possibly) caused by an abnormal reverse die which I feel ought to be taken into consideration when grading this particular coin, my WAG would be:

................F-12 (minimum).........

I really never thought that I would be put on the spot with a 'grading' question, but I am not proud, and show my ignorance continuously every day, rain or shine.

kaz

Nice collection there, DNADave!

Love the album toning on PQType's half

I'll make a very uneducated guess at a grade of "Fine" on JR's superb half dollar

grip

I think the 12 from Lewy was a good guess.

crazyhounddog

grip

crazyhounddog
Is that yours?

Lewy

1795 O-117 That is the end of mine.

CommemDude

PCGS 45


PCGS 58

slumlord98

1806 O.107

slumlord98

Progression of 1805 O.104 obverse cud

slumlord98

1803 O.104 with dentil tracks across obverse