1835 $2 1/2

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• Hussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭

  January 10, 2009 8:43AM

  Anyone?
  
  

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• Placid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭

  January 10, 2009 9:03AM

  Old gold

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• tjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭

  January 10, 2009 9:21AM

  Picture is a tad blurry, but it looks like an nice AU coin that appears to be unmolested. It also seems well-struck.
  
  Congratulations!

  Tom
  
  

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• kaz Posts: 9,342 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2009 9:45AM

  Looks very nice to me, a.u. and not baggy at all.

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• Quarternut Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭

  January 10, 2009 1:33PM

  Love that Classic gold!!
  
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• illini420 Posts: 11,530 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 10, 2009 1:34PM

  

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• Hussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭

  January 10, 2009 11:29PM

  Thanks I was thinking au too. It wasn't a trick question but I submitted it raw along with a 1900 $10.
  
  The 1835 $2 1/2 came back in a genuine holder 98 damaged or tooled.
  
  I can't see any damage apart from a couple of small scratches above the eagles eyes. Is that considered damage on such an early coin?
  
  I don't think it's tooled?
  
  I think it's a 1835 $2 1/2 McCloskey-1, R.2.
  
  This variety is identified by the wide AM in AMERICA, a reuse of the die that earlier coined the 1834 Large Head McCloskey-A. The centers are week, but the overall strike is good.
  
  The 1835 is considered scarcer than the first year of this type 1834 and the 1836.
  
  
  1900 $10- came back as MS62.
  
  
  
  

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