How rare is a 1795 Flowing Hair half, O-129?

barberkeys · March 26, 2013 9:08AM

A local auction has one upcoming, NGC-45.

SmEagle1795 · March 26, 2013 9:14AM

O-129 is hands down my favorite half dollar variety, with a wonderful misspelling of STATES as STATED. It's noted either as an R4+ or an R5 from what I've seen, but I've personally cherrypicked three of them in the last three years so they don't feel quite that rare. An NGC 45 sounds like an exciting coin, however - the best I've picked up was a VF25. Even if it is overgraded by a few points, that's a big coin for a local auction in my opinion (probably $10K) and if it isn't as well attended, you may end up getting it at a good price.

rec78 · March 26, 2013 12:15PM

Good luck on that one--Unless it is an estate that must sell at any price, the owner probably has a rediculous reserve on it.

Bob

barberkeys · March 26, 2013 12:26PM

Thanks for the info. This coin is supposedly the James A. Stack coin, that Stack's sold raw in the 1970's.

And how ridiculous is ridiculous?

daOnlyBG · March 26, 2013 1:23PM

For a 45? I could see $35,000 or higher for the O-129, assuming it had some decent eye-appeal. link?

barberkeys · March 26, 2013 2:08PM

Link to 1795 half O-129

If my link doesn't work, it's at sonnyhenryauctions.com. 4/6/13 auction, lot #252.

daOnlyBG · March 26, 2013 2:50PM

Hard to tell, I guess. I personally like it, and if I had the money, I'd pay over $30k for it. If someone bought it for less than $10k, it'd be theft- especially at that grade+luster. It's a bit tricky to say because not many have been sold at XF45 before, of course. I imagine that the coin being in two well documented collections will probably draw considerable attention, but I'm not sure why it wasn't listed at a bigger auction like Heritage or Stacks. Who knows, you might get a bargain...

rec78 · March 26, 2013 4:34PM

<< Link to 1795 half O-129

If my link doesn't work, it's at sonnyhenryauctions.com. 4/6/13 auction, lot #252. >>

You just let the cat out of the bag and gained some competition. But thanks for the link-I may bid on something else..You have no problem with me as competition on that coin-it's far out of my league.

Here is a direct link to the 1795

llafoe · March 26, 2013 9:10PM

ricko · March 27, 2013 1:03AM

Nice coin.....will bring some big bucks....Cheers, RickO

barberkeys · March 27, 2013 1:08PM

Does anyone have a pic of the James A Stack coin?

johnny9434 · March 28, 2013 5:37AM

<< Nice coin.....will bring some big bucks....Cheers, RickO >>

thats the way it always works

Yacorie1 · March 28, 2013 5:54AM

I wonder if that full set of barber dimes has the 94-S

DIMEMAN · March 28, 2013 6:14AM

If that is the coin......STATES looks spelled correctly to me???

PQueue · March 28, 2013 6:38AM

I agree with DIMEMAN, sure looks like STATES to me.

daOnlyBG · March 28, 2013 6:45AM

I've seen a couple of these in my hands- from what I recall, the "S" over "D" isn't as obvious as the "E" over "A"; it's pretty likely that you'd need to see the coin up close to see the error/variety.

leothelyon · March 28, 2013 6:50AM

<< I agree with DIMEMAN, sure looks like STATES to me.

>>

I got that impression myself and assumed there must be an underlying D. searching the variety, that's what it is.

Leo

DeliaBug · March 28, 2013 6:52AM

<< Does anyone have a pic of the James A Stack coin? >>

That is the James A Stack coin. Definite plate match.

DIMEMAN · March 28, 2013 6:55AM

Thanks for the link Leo. It's easy to see.

sniocsu · March 28, 2013 12:07PM

One heck of a half dollar

barberkeys · March 29, 2013 7:45AM

Thanks to all for the thoughts/info.

DeliaBug - Thanks for the confirmation.

barberkeys · April 1, 2013 5:14AM

Any other thoughts on what it might take to win this O-129?

tlbrown · April 1, 2013 5:28AM

Beautiful coin. I'd be curious though to see if it went darker in hand.

SmEagle1795 · April 1, 2013 6:23AM

<< Any other thoughts on what it might take to win this O-129? >>

I'd price it somewhere around the $9-10K range depending on how it looks in-hand (500x300px images don't really tell the whole story very well). It strikes me as strange that they would have this coin at this auction... it's in the middle of nowhere and not very well publicized. It's a two-hour drive, one way for me, and I'm somewhat considering it.

How rare is a 1795 Flowing Hair half, O-129?

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