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Have a new Top Lincoln, in my UGLY Collection .. Au details

 

upgraded my 1880 3CN TO PF67

 

My latest commemorative

 

If you have uglier than that please DO show them.

 

I've been looking for an 1854 or 55 Liberty Seated Half with Arrows (no rays) for my Type Set for some time now and recently picked up this variant of the type - the 1855 over 4 overdate. These overdates are far scarcer than the more common examples of the variety. PCGS lists 14 in MS and 102 examples in all grades. So, why not fill the hole with a more interesting example?

This one is in a PCGS slab, graded AU-55. It has pretty obviously been dipped at some point in the past but has not retoned. The surfaces are almost proof-like. I have attached closeups of the date. The first shows the crossbar of the underlying 4. The second shows the underlying 8 and you can also see where the first 5 has been repunched.

Finally, there is a clash extending down from Liberty's right forearm that looks like an eagle wingtip but I haven't tried an overly yet.

If anyone knows of a reference for the three die varieties of this date, would you mind sharing it?

 

My Dad purchased this coin in the 1970's, so it isn't a new one for me, but this is the first time I've photographed it. When I got it under the lens a luster bomb exploded!!

 

Just splurged on this one. Pcgs ms 64. They totally missed it on this Beauty

 

Got this a few days ago. 1921 Peace Dollar.

 

Another Peace Dollar. 1922 MS-64.

 

And yet another Peace dollar arrived today. MS-64. 1923.

 

for your 1855...
https://web.archive.org/web/2009052...nnews.com/index.php/seated-half-dollars-1855/

 

Thanks @okbustchaser. That is helpful and provides some of the information I'm seeking. I am waiting for Bill Bugert to publish his second volume of the Philadelphia Mint LS half dollars. His first one ended with 1852. I think for now I'll go search the archives of the Gobrecht Journal to see if there's an article on these.

 

This is another coin for the Type Coin album. (I have been posting about it in Building a Type Set.)

I upgraded the Liberty Seated quarter (with Motto) to this blue uncirculated example. As I mentioned in another post, I bought an 1877 by accident and it was holding down the spot in the album. This is more like what I had in mind. The reverse is especially great, and the reverse is what distinguishes this variation from the other Liberty Seated quarters.



Here are full-resolution still photos if you want to examine anything in greater detail.



Here is how the Quarters section of the Type Coin album looks with this upgrade. I think the dramatic color and the sharply struck contours anchor the middle of this page.

 

jom

 

I may have set a record for the quickest crack-out of all time.

I went in person to Edelman's Coins to pick up my eBay purchase shown two posts above. I arrived early in the morning, just after the delivery man dropped off a box of 60 graded coins from NGC. While I was standing there, Andrew opened the box to see if there was anything appropriate for my type set. Indeed there was. This 1835 Half Dime came in at MS62 and looked great with my other coins.



It seems you cannot stuff a slabbed coin into an album. So now, less than 24 hours later, it is raw again. Only three people even saw it after it was shipped out from NGC - Andrew, then me, and then my wife.






There is just one coin to go to complete this page. I will show the whole page when it is finished. (Whenever that may be!)

 

Nice coins. Especially the quarter

 

Nice pick up LM 10 R-1 obv 6 rev EE one of the most common found 1835 small date.

 

1847 Rpd -002 repunched date 1847/18

Bill the way you can distinguish between the RPD -001 & your specimen 002 can be spoted by the 7.
There are other pups but notice the difference. I've posted my 1847 below.
If you compare the two 7's you'll notice the differences in the two dates.
Mine is heavier as yours is thinner esspecially at the angle of the 7 .
As both are rpd's neither carry a premium as the only variety that does is proof coins.
That is due to the low mintage of the 1847 date.
No matter both are very nice specimens and worthy of the noted differences of the digits.
What interest me is knowing how many die punches were used to punch the digits.
The 4 is also different if you compare the two of them....as well the 1 and 8 show different punches were used, from the same Philly mint.
The number of working dies for Philly is unknown,
The philly mint minted 1,274,000 which also account for the premium factor, whete 1846 only 27,000, minted and 1848 668,000 were struck in Philly and 600,000 in New Orleans.