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Update on my emails to others regarding 1849 Half Dime Overdates -- We have a verdict!

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:
    The FS301 and FS302 1849 Half Dime's look like 2 completely different overdates to me. If I owned one of each and all of a sudden they were called the same coin......I would not be a happy camper.

    They are indeed different 1849/6 dies. The TPGs just need to do whatever they do with other issues with multiple overdates, such as 1880 dollars.

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:

    @DIMEMAN said:
    The FS301 and FS302 1849 Half Dime's look like 2 completely different overdates to me. If I owned one of each and all of a sudden they were called the same coin......I would not be a happy camper.

    They are indeed different 1849/6 dies. The TPGs just need to do whatever they do with other issues with multiple overdates, such as 1880 dollars.

    They also have 2 different underlying digits.

  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    edited May 20, 2018 12:46PM

    So if PCGS just lumps the '49/8 with the '49/6, the six '49/6 Top Pops will then be 3 grades under?
    Think I might be a lil PO'd!

    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 20, 2018 1:15PM

    @DIMEMAN said:
    The FS301 and FS302 1849 Half Dime's look like 2 completely different overdates to me. If I owned one of each and all of a sudden they were called the same coin......I would not be a happy camper.

    They aren't. The only thing that's changing is they will be 1849/6 instead of 1849/8.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 5,036 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:

    @DIMEMAN said:
    The FS301 and FS302 1849 Half Dime's look like 2 completely different overdates to me. If I owned one of each and all of a sudden they were called the same coin......I would not be a happy camper.

    They aren't. The only thing that's changing is they will be 1849/6 instead of 1849/8.

    They should have different labels, because they are different dies.
    My suggestion (like the Red Book):
    1849 / Far 6 V-2 FS-302
    1849 / Near 6 V-4 FS-301

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @yosclimber said:

    @ms70 said:

    @DIMEMAN said:
    The FS301 and FS302 1849 Half Dime's look like 2 completely different overdates to me. If I owned one of each and all of a sudden they were called the same coin......I would not be a happy camper.

    They aren't. The only thing that's changing is they will be 1849/6 instead of 1849/8.

    They should have different labels, because they are different dies.
    My suggestion (like the Red Book):
    1849 / Far 6 V-2 FS-302
    1849 / Near 6 V-4 FS-301

    I completely agree. They are clearly different.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • ParlousJoeParlousJoe Posts: 451 ✭✭✭

    Just a heads up to a pretty nice looking 1849/6 Variety that I found on eBay that doesn't have the variety label on it unfortunately, but someone could get it and send it back to PCGS to get it attributed with the 1849/6 H10c Variety label. I have no interest in this coin as to owning it, part owner of it or seller of it, just want to let you people know that collect these variety of coins that this out there if someone is interested in it. I believe it's at a pretty good price for a 1849/6 variety. I would have purchased it but it's not something that I collect. Good luck to the person that buys it if someone buys it!

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/1849-P-Seated-Liberty-Half-Dime-PCGS-MS64-CAC/132623393124?hash=item1ee0f86164:g:-3sAAOSw7UJa03rb

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2, 2018 8:46PM

    Thanks @ParlousJoe that one has been on ebay for quite a while.

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 19, 2018 9:12AM

    Any new info?

    My most recent 1849/6 H10C V-2 cherry-pick arrived today;


    (sellers images)

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,572 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like Roger's thinking and reasoning, as metal goes. And as far as research goes, well this is an awesome thread.

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:
    The next CPG, which will include half dimes, is currently scheduled for release in 2020.

    Seems so far away...but it is only a year and a half away.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @yosclimber said:

    @CaptHenway said:
    Let me try to upload a picture of Mr. HalfDime's killer 1849/6 V-2 Very Early Die State.

    Thanks for obtaining the image and posting it - I have been wanting to see this amazing example for years.
    @MrHalfDime told part of the story about this coin in a 2005 forum post:

    At an ANA summer convention several years ago, I stopped by the table of Harlan Berk, for whom Thomas Delorey works, to introduce myself and offer my comments and agreement with his articles on the 1849 half dimes. Although Harlan Berk specializes in ancient and foreign coins, Mr. Delorey smiled, reached into his case, and said "Then you would appreciate this coin". He showed me absolutely the earliest die state that I had ever seen of the 1849 V2 "1849/6", with the entire underdigit visible. It was, indesputably, a 6 - without question. He smiled again and said "Kind of puts an end to the debate, doesn't it?". I was thoroughly impressed and asked if I might take some notes on the coin. Thomas stunned me by saying "I'll do better than that; you can buy it if you'd like". I treasure that coin, and often produce it to end debate on the 1849/6 vs. 1849/8 half dimes.

    I’m glad you got to enjoy it, Steve.
    TD

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another history making thread!

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Updated 6-19-19.
    Bill Fivaz has confirmed to me that the 1849/8 V-4 FS-301 has been changed to 1849/6 V-4 FS-301a
    and the 1849/8 V-2 FS-302 has been changed to 1849/6 V-2 FS-302a.
    TD

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats @CaptHenway!

    These changes will appear in the 2020 CPG?

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hemispherical said:
    Congrats @CaptHenway!

    These changes will appear in the 2020 CPG?

    Yes

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Tremendous! Thank you Capt!

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 19, 2019 1:40PM

    @CaptHenway said:
    Updated 6-19-19.
    Bill Fivaz has confirmed to me that the 1849/8 V-4 FS-301 has been changed to 1849/6 V-4 FS-301a
    and the 1849/8 V-2 FS-302 has been changed to 1849/6 V-2 FS-302a.
    TD

    What does the "a" at the end denote? Is that just a means to distance it from the previous attribution?

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:

    @CaptHenway said:
    Updated 6-19-19.
    Bill Fivaz has confirmed to me that the 1849/8 V-4 FS-301 has been changed to 1849/6 V-4 FS-301a
    and the 1849/8 V-2 FS-302 has been changed to 1849/6 V-2 FS-302a.
    TD

    What does the "a" at the end denote? Is that just a means to distance it from the previous attribution?

    Yes, to show that it is the same variety previously referenced but now amended.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:
    Tremendous! Thank you Capt!

    You're welcome!

    Only took me about 40 years..........

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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