Beautiful 1804 "Spiked Chin" from the "Half Cent Whister" Collection

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• keyman64 Posts: 15,547 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 19, 2011 12:04AM

  cool

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• gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭

  April 19, 2011 12:09AM

  With a cud for a bonus!

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,782 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 19, 2011 1:13AM

  Oh goodie, Half Cent Show and Tell is back! Kewl!!!
  
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• BillJones Posts: 34,843 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 19, 2011 1:20AM

  I'm sure you must known that is a Cohen 7, which is the rarest of the four Spiked Chin varieties. More of them have been found which means it's down to R-4, maybe high R-3, but that one is a very nice example.
  
  The diagnostic is that the leaf points between the "O" and "F" in "OF."

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,292 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 19, 2011 3:53AM

  way cool, i like it

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• halfcentman Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭

  April 19, 2011 3:55AM

  
  
  << <i>I'm sure you must known that is a Cohen 7, which is the rarest of the four Spiked Chin varieties. More of them have been found which means it's down to R-4, maybe high R-3, but that one is a very nice example.
  
  The diagnostic is that the leaf points between the "O" and "F" in "OF." >>
  
  
  
  Damn right it is! I believe that coin is Ex: Weber from 2002.

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• illini420 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 19, 2011 4:02AM

  Very cool, one of my favorite varieties for sure

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• BillJones Posts: 34,843 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 19, 2011 4:25AM

  
  
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  << <i>I'm sure you must known that is a Cohen 7, which is the rarest of the four Spiked Chin varieties. More of them have been found which means it's down to R-4, maybe high R-3, but that one is a very nice example.
  
  The diagnostic is that the leaf points between the "O" and "F" in "OF." >>
  
  
  
  Damn right it is! I believe that coin is Ex: Weber from 2002. >>
  
  
  
  Back at that time I could not afford anything that was sold out of the Weber collection. Back when I was collecting half cents by die variety I had an example of this variety in VF-30 that I cherry picked at a local show.

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• pakasmom Posts: 1,920 ✭

  April 19, 2011 4:39AM

  Thank you for sharing the image of that coin!
  
  Bill Jones, thank you for the knowledge you share with us.

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