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Incorrect Attribution in HA.com auction, Half Dime

BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
I usually check these things out in advance and if I spot an error, I let Heritage know. Didn't examine this coin closely until today...and it closes today.

Anyway, Heritage has an 1835 half dime attributed on the label as LM-5.1. If it were truly a 5.1, it would not have die cracks evident at the second S in STATES on the reverse. Close examination reveals a couple die cracks in this location, making the coin an 1835 LM-5.2 and much more common. Had the coin truly been a 5.1, it would have been the rarer of the two 1835 LM-5 remarriages.

Link to PCGS AU-50 "LM-5.1" misattribution

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  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    Good catch, and hopefully your post will keep some unsuspecting bidder from overbidding.
    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

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