Hey guys, Soon, I will throw down my 5,000th post. That's right... you guys have put up with a lot of baloney from me, and you deserve a treat. So how about another game of "Attribute THIS, pal !!!" I'll submit one of my favorite types - the Capped Bust half. Attribution and grade opinions welcome.
AU 64? not really an overtons guy. anyways looking at this is making me jealous so i have to stop. lol
Nice piece, as for the Overton, when I have a day or so I'll try again. 1827 is a tough year, with 49 die marriages.
Right on ! One of the clinchers is as Frank Treashunt said - third line of third gule up one bar. In addition, there are two other diagnostics which seal the deal : a vertical die line on lowest olive leaf (@6:30) up to the olive branch above it, and another vertical die line on the uppermost talon up towards the feathers Both are clear on the coin but hard to see on the pic. Old small-slab ANACS called this one MS62; it's certainly strong "market acceptable" at that grade.
And since it clearly looks better than a 62 that pretty much clinches it for me that it's really an AU64
A MS62 my foot! That half dollar is at least a MS64. I just don't know or understand ANCS's grading sometimes. I feel that they tend under-grade, but that is just my opinion. I just can't get over MS62. I almost dropped my jaw when I read that!
Yes it is a very nice coin, and it looks to be an MS64 in most all respects - except one, it has light wear. Now it looks too nice to grade it AU58, but that nagging light wear is there so they couldn't call it MS64 - so they split the difference and called it a 62.
