Whats going on with the obverse of this barber half?

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• LindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 13, 2018 12:59PM

  Tooled?

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  February 13, 2018 1:02PM

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• LogPotato Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭

  February 13, 2018 1:08PM

  "Another peculiarity of the New Orleans Mint halves is a swelling on Liberty's neck evidently caused by an injury to the die. This swelling, known as "mumps," is frequently seen on 1906-O, 1907-O and 1908-O halves, and it may be the result of improperly hardening the dies. New Orleans Mint correspondence has revealed that another cause of this facility's failure in fully striking coins was that it did not properly anneal, or soften, its planchets."

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• TomB Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 13, 2018 2:01PM

  I knew the date before I opened the thread. It has what is called "the mumps".

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 13, 2018 2:41PM

  Same thing happened to the dies,
  also obv., but in front of the neck,
  of 1943-S Quarters

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• No Headlights Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 13, 2018 4:31PM

  @LogPotato said:
  "Another peculiarity of the New Orleans Mint halves is a swelling on Liberty's neck evidently caused by an injury to the die. This swelling, known as "mumps," is frequently seen on 1906-O, 1907-O and 1908-O halves, and it may be the result of improperly hardening the dies. New Orleans Mint correspondence has revealed that another cause of this facility's failure in fully striking coins was that it did not properly anneal, or soften, its planchets."

  [https://ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Barber-Half-Dollars.aspx](https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Barber-Half-Dollars.aspx "https://ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Barber-Half-Dollars.asp

  Well stated Justin. Even they are as minted in my experience they don’t bring top dollar

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• Walkerguy21D Posts: 11,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 13, 2018 4:57PM

  Yep, Log is all over it - good explanation.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 14, 2018 8:13AM

  Yep... the 'mumps' coins have been discussed before...Good example and excellent explanation above....Nice pictures too... Cheers, RickO

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