PCGS EF-45. This is about as perfect as it gets for this grade.
This 1806 half dollar is graded AU-58. It has a lot of luster and has a better than average strike for the date.
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Wish I did. This is from the Dale Friend collection display that PCGS had at FUN. I shot this through a display case at their booth with my point 'n' shoot.
That is one heck of a nice collection you've got there Baley. I do think that the draped bust is my favorite obverse, and you have some beautiful examples. I copied your picture (that you posted of your collection), blew it up and fell in love. Now I understand why the flowing hairs are so difficult to locate.....someone has them all. Very nice group pcgs69. I do like them very much.
Good thought Kaz, let me hurry any get one on this same page, wish I had an 1807 as nice as yours to post but at least yours is between that 1794 and mine, so the contrast will not appear quite as stark.
Fantastic coin JR. What is that thing? At first I thought it was a 104a, then it looked like a 104b, but now it sorta looks like a cross between the two. Cud over U, and looks like a retained cud over ITE. SUPER COOL whatever you call it.
Hey Lewy Good to talk to you again This one isn't at the "b" die state just yet 1806/5 O-104a R5 This is the third use of this obverse die and the fifth use of the reverse die. This obverse die was used, annealed, overdated, hardened and then used again.
Thanks very much for the closeup and the info JR. I knew you would have something intelligent as well as highly interesting to say about that coin. Oh, I just love that coin.....it is a good thing that i am wearing a bib while reading this thread. (Please add me to your will).
We are not going to let this one peter out yet are we? I am still waiting to see close ups of JR's avatar coin, and will not consider myself to have led a full life until I witness it.
Come on dudes & dudettes, I only have a couple left, but I know there is a vast trove of these things (in high grade as well), hidden deep in the inner sanctums of your vaults.
Hey Lewy, My avatar coin is my 1795/1795, 3 leaf flowing hair half. It is an R4+ and the only 1795 with a 3 leaf cluster under each wing. This variety shows a strong double cut date with the first cut much lower. It also has a nice recut BE in LIBERTY and of course the heavy die break on the reverse causing the coin to have 2 distinctly different planes as seen in the difference between the words UNITED and STATES. Fun coin.
Ooooooooooooh.......Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah. That is without a doubt the most exhilarating flowing hair that I have ever seen JR. Thanks very, very much for posting it. I continue to search high and low for one just like it.
Thanks Lewy and kaz. Hey Lewy, I think you have a real strong insight into these classic ladies. Just for curiosity, what approximate grade would you put on my 1795?
JR, I honestly don't know the first thing about grading other than to compare what I have seen in holders and what I have seen posted on threads.
Based on those comparisons, and what I believe to be an obverse brought to inconsistent relief, (possibly) caused by an abnormal reverse die which I feel ought to be taken into consideration when grading this particular coin, my WAG would be:
................F-12 (minimum).........
I really never thought that I would be put on the spot with a 'grading' question, but I am not proud, and show my ignorance continuously every day, rain or shine.
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This 1806 half dollar is graded AU-58. It has a lot of luster and has a better than average strike for the date.
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Oh, wait, you said your early halves. Never mind.
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I don't have any photobucket problems...
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Do you have a reverse to that beauty?
Is there some way that I can blame the appearance of this coin on my scanner or the lighting or something like that?
Actually (in hand), it is a beautiful coin. If it wasn't for the cleanings, alterations, and wear, it would be in MS status.
O-103a.
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Do you have a reverse to that beauty? >>
Wish I did. This is from the Dale Friend collection display that PCGS had at FUN. I shot this through a display case at their booth with my point 'n' shoot.
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Another 1807...this time.....as they say on eBay..... the 'very rare' (R-2) O-110.
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Now I understand why the flowing hairs are so difficult to locate.....someone has them all. Very nice group pcgs69. I do like them very much.
Here is 1806 O-120:
That's one amazing coin!!
Here is my last 1807 (O-101)
PCGS graded Small 3.
Good to talk to you again
This one isn't at the "b" die state just yet
1806/5 O-104a R5
This is the third use of this obverse die and the fifth use of the reverse die.
This obverse die was used, annealed, overdated, hardened and then used again.
Here is 1803 O-103
Here is 1805 O-110.
My avatar coin is my 1795/1795, 3 leaf flowing hair half.
It is an R4+ and the only 1795 with a 3 leaf cluster under each wing.
This variety shows a strong double cut date with the first cut much lower.
It also has a nice recut BE in LIBERTY and of course the heavy die break on the
reverse causing the coin to have 2 distinctly different planes as seen in the
difference between the words UNITED and STATES. Fun coin.
Hey Lewy, I think you have a real strong insight into these classic ladies.
Just for curiosity, what approximate grade would you put on my 1795?
Based on those comparisons, and what I believe to be an obverse brought to inconsistent relief, (possibly) caused by an abnormal reverse die which I feel ought to be taken into consideration when grading this particular coin, my WAG would be:
................F-12 (minimum).........
I really never thought that I would be put on the spot with a 'grading' question, but I am not proud, and show my ignorance continuously every day, rain or shine.
Love the album toning on PQType's half
I'll make a very uneducated guess at a grade of "Fine" on JR's superb half dollar
Is that yours?
PCGS 58
Commems and Early Type