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USAFRETWIUSAFRETWI Posts: 464 ✭✭✭
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Really like the draped bust and flowing hair halves, post them if you got em!!!!

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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PCGS EF-45. This is about as perfect as it gets for this grade.

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

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    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • RebelRonRebelRon Posts: 544 ✭✭
    Wow!......NICE!image
  • USAFRETWIUSAFRETWI Posts: 464 ✭✭✭
    Very Nice Bill, love that 95
  • maibockaddictmaibockaddict Posts: 1,759 ✭
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    You may call me Dave
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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just won this one yesterday DLRC.
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  • maibockaddictmaibockaddict Posts: 1,759 ✭
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    You may call me Dave
    BHNC member # 184!

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  • maibockaddictmaibockaddict Posts: 1,759 ✭
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    You may call me Dave
    BHNC member # 184!

    http://www.busthalfaddict.com
  • slumlord98slumlord98 Posts: 1,180 ✭
    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.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    image Oh, wait, you said your early halves. Never mind.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • maibockaddictmaibockaddict Posts: 1,759 ✭


    << <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...

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    You may call me Dave
    BHNC member # 184!

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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    messydesk
    Do you have a reverse to that beauty?
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,878 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't let Lewy see this thread!!! image
  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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.


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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,274 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
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  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭


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





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  • maibockaddictmaibockaddict Posts: 1,759 ✭
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    You may call me Dave
    BHNC member # 184!

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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's a small group I put together a few years ago..

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  • pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭✭
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  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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:


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  • kazkaz Posts: 9,254 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some beautiful halves in this thread. My Small Head is not as nice as PCGS69's, but here it is:

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  • drddmdrddm Posts: 5,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is Dale's 1794 Half Dollar PCGS MS61............AMAZING!!!!

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  • kazkaz Posts: 9,254 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My type DBH:

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  • kazkaz Posts: 9,254 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My girls are pretty happy to rub elbows with Dale's 1794 image


    That's one amazing coin!!
  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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)



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  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭

    PCGS graded Small 3.

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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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.
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
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    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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).
  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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


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  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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.



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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
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    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,254 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some more great coins from Jrocco and Lewy.. I'm totally out... very educational and the closeup photos are neat too!
  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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.
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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?
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    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.
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,254 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think the 12 from Lewy was a good guess.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • LewyLewy Posts: 594 ✭
    1795 O-117 That is the end of mine.


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  • CommemDudeCommemDude Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PCGS 45
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    PCGS 58
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    Dr Mikey
    Commems and Early Type
  • slumlord98slumlord98 Posts: 1,180 ✭
    1806 O.107

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  • slumlord98slumlord98 Posts: 1,180 ✭
    Progression of 1805 O.104 obverse cud

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    1803 O.104 with dentil tracks across obverse

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