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1878 Seated Half - with strange die cracks/chips - F or VF?

StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭✭✭

Will likely never get graded, but labeling my 2x2 I keep telling myself F-19. What would you guys grade this?

Also - the die cracks/chips on the reverse through the "IC" of "AMERICA" - anyone seen something like this before? Figured it may be an early stage of a CUD forming, but found no CUDs for this date.



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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,212 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way kewl die crack with chips!

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    StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yea Capt - you know me... if it's odd, I gravitate towards it. If that crack already had 2 pretty decent die chips in it, wonder if the die was in use much longer - like to see what a late die state looks like/what it developed into.

    So...what would you grade it?

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,212 ✭✭✭✭✭

    F-12/VF-20

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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,051 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd call it VF20. Neat die chips.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting die chips... I would call it VF20....Cheers, RickO

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    LoveMyLibertyLoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭

    Go to CoinFacts, look at the 6th coin down,
    a 63. It looks like the beginning of the crack/chips.

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    SmudgeSmudge Posts: 10,009 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Weak Liberty. 15 for me.

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    StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 8, 2018 11:50AM

    @LoveMyLiberty said:
    Go to CoinFacts, look at the 6th coin down,
    a 63. It looks like the beginning of the crack/chips.

    Nice - it does become quite a larger crack, but the chips seem to stay about the same.

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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    VF20

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