Just want to add, these are seller photos. Most can decipher the first one. The second one I feel doesn't do it justice enough. I've seen a few 08-S's in my life and I feel it's pretty sweet on it's own.
Careful with that first one. Have you heard about the Guatemala Hoard of Seated Halves? A huge hoard of them was discovered in Guatemala around 1956, dates ranging from 1859/60-1865, Philadelphia and San Francisco. All had been abrasively cleaned, and a substantial percentage - most, probably - of the extant examples come from this hoard. I've been looking for clues for years regarding how they came to be in Guatemala, and am especially interested in what happenstance required them all to be cleaned.
Those are both beauties. Does that 62 have a die crack left of the date? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
She was cleaned. But we will give the old lady a break. She could have come from Mars, for all we care. Look at her. She is a flat one. He sees it. He does not mind. Neither do I kick her out of my collection for it. She is otherwise put together fine.
Coins, like cars, combine the objectivity of engineering with the subjectivity of art. Mere fact is as insufficient to describe a coin as it is a rainbow. As an idea where my heart lies, here is her sister: I couldn't care less if it spent a century in the ground in Guatemala.
Cleaned? Maybe at some point in it's life, but not recently. Most circ coins from the 19th century and even the beginning of the 20th century were cleaned at some point. Yes that is a die crack.
