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Why did I buy this Capped Bust Dime?
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Here are the sellers images:
Come up with your hypotheses, and I'll reveal the real answer after class (with improved pics...hopefully).
Come up with your hypotheses, and I'll reveal the real answer after class (with improved pics...hopefully).
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-Paul
<< <i>Knowing you it is a JR-2 which is normally an R-4 example however again knowing you w/cud thru "MERC" = R-7. >>
I agree with this!
I guess my perception as a collector of Bust Cud's has gotten the better of me
Good job you two
I'll have better pics when I get back from class!
the only thing I have left to add are some updated (albeit still relatively crude) pics of the coin as I received it
(This top image is representative of the true color of the coin; the other images show a lot more reflection than what I wanted)
As an R7 Cud, of which there's supposed to be 4-12 known, my 2 examples represent 50-17% of surviving examples, theoretically
Additional points of interest:
The Reiver and Logan collections, when they were auctioned off, did not contain an example of this later die state.
I've also seen just one other image of an example of this LDS, and that is in Thurman and Margolis' "Cud Book", pg. 176.
No doubt an extremely rare die stage, and I just happened to be lucky enough to own two of them
<< <i>So Winston - you own two examples of an R7 bust dime? You are cornering the market for this variety! >>
Ya know, when I won the coin I still wasn't certain that what I was seeing was actually a Cud, and could easily have
been wear in that particular area; just look at the rest of the reverse rim, most of it is worn to the edge!
I just played the odds that something as coincidental as what the image showed, could in fact be a Cud...and a rare one to boot!
Also, the coin didn't cost me anything
Also, the coin didn't cost me anything
Okay, now "You Suck!"