An old friend - nice 1800 Half Cent (ANR photo)

halfcentman · February 10, 2011 11:51AM

Take a good look at this one, and tell me what makes it so different than most 1800 Half Cents' even higher grade ones.

This coin was pictured in the Les and Sue Fox book. It's from our collection (Greg and Lisa Heim). Lisa had A LOT to do with selecting the kick-ass quality.

Enjoy, and try to figure it out.

Greg

STONE · February 10, 2011 12:06PM

Super obverse strike

iceman0xh · February 10, 2011 1:01PM

Missing eye?

MikeInFL · February 10, 2011 2:10PM

It has some red in it.

Billet7 · February 10, 2011 2:19PM

Superb strike on the obverse, heck yes! Some red, yes. I personally like the crack on the reverse, this is the leftover die from the earlier half-cent style, so the die got some real use. Personally one of my favorite years, yours is nicer than mine...PCGS VF30

CaptHenway · February 10, 2011 3:13PM

Too much tonnage between me and the catalogue, but is it the Garrett Specimen?

halfcentman · February 10, 2011 8:22PM

<< <i>Super obverse strike

>>

That's the best answer.

Most of the 1800 Half Cents are from a hoard. They are struck from a later state of the dies.

This coin is an exception. For people who are afficionados of Half Cents, this is a Manley 3.0 early. Notice how crisp the dentilation is, and as was stated the strike. BY "EAC" standards, it has uncirculated detail but five points of deductions (the picture is horrible).

This coin was sold in the Lake Michigan and Springdale Collections by ANR in June 2006. It brought $2,600 + 15%.

Lastly, this coin even as more special meaning to us. It was the first nice coin we bought in 1999. We had to make some payments on it. On Christmas of that year, Lisa gave me this box once everyone left. In it was this coin wrapped up in a ton of tissue paper (yes, it was in a cotton pouch as many EAC'ers use). Way cool!

Greg

CaptHenway · February 10, 2011 10:38PM

tres bien!

notwilight · February 10, 2011 11:21PM

Greg,
This looks like kindof an intermediate die state. It has the strong dentillation on the obv as you point out and little or no rust marks, and it has the die marker on the F on the reverse which was polished out with the later clash marks. but it also has the die crack through the CE in cent that is characteristic of later die states. So would this be a late example of the early die state? thanks, Jerry

halfcentman · February 11, 2011 1:38AM

Yes, you hit the nail on the head. It's an early-intermediate state. It has some characteristics of the 3.0, and some of the 4.0 (which ones I forget exactly).

The one that I do know is that Ed Fuhrman (the guru on DB 1/2C) called it this because the coin in hand is so bold.

johnny9434 · February 11, 2011 3:52AM

nice coin

Dennis88 · February 11, 2011 4:15AM

Very cool. I like that coin a lot

Dennis

halfcentman · February 11, 2011 7:16AM

Thanks for the nice compliments.

We had 21 pieces in that auction. All of them are pedigreed to us. We took a great deal of pride in putting that together, but when our third child was born with autism and me having to stop being a professional video poker player it had to be sold.

I will put some other pieces up over the weekend that we used to have. Right now, my kids are 13, 11 and 6. Lisa and I are very selective about coins we buy, and right now the money is not there. However, the knowledge continues to accrue.

Later,

Greg

avenue7 · February 11, 2011 12:00PM

Amazing eye appeal

An old friend - nice 1800 Half Cent (ANR photo)

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