1836 CBH10c w/ Bisecting Crack

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• Barndog Posts: 20,520 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2007 1:40PM

  harder to find than the R-3 rating would indicate (IMO), especially in higher grade. I've owned three examples, my first was a VF (still own it), my second was an XF that I received in a trade and it was my set piece for some time -- I have since traded it away. My current set piece is an AU-58 (the TPG thought it was mint state).
  
  Did PCGS not like the obverse digs or was it just submitted for photography service?

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• CappedBustDimes Posts: 218

  July 1, 2007 2:08PM

  ANACS thought this VF35 was an AU50...I also suspect a cleaning? I primarily submitted for the tru view. For me, she was hard to find with a prominent crack.

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  July 1, 2007 2:48PM

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• STONE Posts: 15,275 ✭

  July 1, 2007 10:17PM

  A friend of mine just picked one of these up, so I'll have to tell him what he has.
  
  Very nice coin/ example.

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• MrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2007 11:11PM

  "A friend of mine just picked one of these up, so I'll have to tell him what he has."
  
  Be aware that the same obverse die (Obverse 1), complete with the bisecting obverse die crack, was also used in another (earlier) die marriage - LM-1. The LM-1 die marriage saw the reverse die also break up, with a pair of spectacular cuds at TED and STAT. Because of the breakup of the reverse die on the later LM-1.2 die state, star 3 is often seen extremely weakly struck or almost not visible. Check your friend's coin, to see if he may have the 1836 LM-1.1 or LM-1.2, with the reverse cuds, all with this same obverse die.
  

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• Cladiator Posts: 18,307 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2007 11:14PM

  Also, the LM1's are R5 coins when the LM2 is but an R3 (R3+ actually).

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