1824 Half Dollar - "Beheaded Eagle" variety

Staircoins

What do you make of this?

Think someone was trying to make some kind of political statement?

mozin

My guess is somebody was bored, so they whittled away on this one. Maybe they did it on lots of silver coins, and collected all the shavings to buy a beer.

JRocco

Sadly the only statement will be that they changed this CBH into a hunk of silver melt.

Staircoins

Sounds better to say that some Confederate soldier sitting by a campfire did it to "take the head off the Union eagle"!

JRocco

<< <i>Sounds better to say that some Confederate soldier sitting by a campfire did it to "take the head off the Union eagle"!

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Don't let my buddy stman hear that story.....


But it works for me.

DoubleEagle59

Don't overlook "STATES OF" has been erased too.

Staircoins

Yes - that, too.

I can't figure out why someone would remove just the eagle's head, and STATES OF.

Seems like it was done intentionally though - to send some kind of message or make some kind of statement.

johnny9434

<< <i>Sadly the only statement will be that they changed this CBH into a hunk of silver melt. >>

and what a bummer it is

savoyspecial

sometimes the placement of scratches on a coin seem to beg this type of speculation


to wit: