1804 Half cent Cohen 2 diagnostics

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• RTS Posts: 1,408 ✭

  August 24, 2010 1:16AM

  

  

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• LoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭

  August 24, 2010 1:23AM

  Close date, low 4 , it's base is below base arc line of 180. LIB a little
  closer spaced than the rest of LIBERTY.
  
  Irregularly spaced legend. Final A very close to ribbon. F in HALF lacks
  right foot, while F in OF is normal. Minute spur in right end of fraction bar.
  Zeros in denominator almost touch.
  
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• Hussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭

  August 24, 2010 1:49AM

  Thanks guys. Excitement over. I don't think mine is one . The F in HALF doesn't lack the
  right foot, while F in OF
  
  I was looking at the old Coinfacts:
  http://www.coinfacts.com/half_cents/1804_half_cents/1804_half_cent_c02.htm
  
  and noticed the die cud in RTY which mine has but I think mine is more like this one:
  http://www.icollector.com/1804-C-9-R2-EF45_i9762778
  
  Just out of couriosity what are the diagnostics for Cohen 9?
  
  The T in CENT looks slightly raised and tilted right.

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• BillJones Posts: 34,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 24, 2010 3:15AM

  I think that the census on this variety is now up to 15 to 20 examples. This was the only 1804 half cent variety that I needed to complete the 1804 die variety set before I threw in the towel more than a decade years. One collector has 5 or 6 examples of the pieces that are known.
  
  A dealer offered a ground salvage example that would have completed my set. The price was over $7,000. That was God's way of telling me it was time to call it quits on this collection. This half cent was made from the obverse of 1804 C-4 and the reverse used for the 1803 C-3 and the 1804 C-1

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