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GTG of my New Bust Half, 1817 O-103 Punctuated Date ***GRADE POSTED***
BustHalfBrian
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I won this on eBay a few days ago, but not before someone bid me up (was it you?). I was at least relieved to see the coin is the O-103 Punctuated Date variety, as I had suspected from the missing serifs on the bases of the I's in UNITED and AMERICA, as well as being a relatively early die state coin (later states of this die marriage do not have a dot between 1 and 7 and thus are not classified as "Punctuated Date"). In circulated condition, this popular variety commands about a 2-3x premium over common 1817's, and even more in AU/MS grades. I have owned a few examples in the last 5 years, two of which of which I sold at the most recent Long Beach coin expo (both of those were PCGS VF35). I think this one is slightly better than those two. With that said, this is one of my favorite Overton varieties and I always enjoy buying a new one, regardless of condition.
Please let me know what you think of the coin (condition, attractiveness, cool-ness, etc). It goes to PCGS this week. I've included a poll in this thread so we may conduct a proper "GTG" contest. I will post the results here as soon as they are ready.
Thanks for looking!
Please let me know what you think of the coin (condition, attractiveness, cool-ness, etc). It goes to PCGS this week. I've included a poll in this thread so we may conduct a proper "GTG" contest. I will post the results here as soon as they are ready.
Thanks for looking!
Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist.
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Nice coin, Brian! I love the variety.
Lance.
But looking and thinking, I'd guess a lot of the central weakness on the obverse may have never been there to begin with....and 40 or 45 is a better guess.
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LOL at the amount of options for your GTG. That's way too much work for me.
Thank you for recognizing how long that took.
You know there's always that one guy that says the grade he wants to guess is missing, so this way I can't possibly go wrong!
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LOL at the amount of options for your GTG. That's way too much work for me.
Thank you for recognizing how long that took.
You know there's always that one guy that says the grade he wants to guess is missing, so this way I can't possibly go wrong!
Well, you got 1 vote for "70", so it was all worth it....
It's MUCH better than others I've seen these days in that grade.
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At least not if I sent it in.
Nice coin and nice variety Brian.
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Look like a small spread of votes in that range.
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Tom
And I also chose 40.
No, I did not bid you up ... I have an O-103.
I grade it EF-40 and can see how it could go EF-45 at PCGS.
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Jim
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