1833 Half Dime Rare Variety?

I have so many books....some paid upwards of 200 +$ but you need to read...its more than putting little round disc in a hole!

 

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That's not a bad habit - it's a great one. Unless you've bought a book that I want.

 

I bought Blythe and Logan/McCloskey shortly after they were published. Added Valentine later. I can say that I've attributed all of my meager half dime holdings.

 

Im on the hunt for both 1852 and the 52 o I went through the hoard and was like oh shoot no 52's!
However not a date I recall seeing in many dealers cases.

 

@Publius2 I scored one of the books I've been hunting this morning for $30 waited It out , no other bidders so bingo I won.
Now cant wait to get it.

 

Cool! I love to add to my library. More tonnage for my kids to deal with.

 

Well no kids here..... so every time the wife makes me mad....I add another log...lol she will out last me by 30 years

 

@AirborneReams, I saw your post when it was new but I wanted to wait until the final chapter was written on this 1833 half dime's story before I replied. I was the "eagle eye," but I also had some confirmation from a super-expert. The scruffy raw 1833 half dime is an 1833 LM-3.5. It also has the early (retained) form of the cud over NITE. The John Reich Collectors Society (JRCS) identifies this remarriage as an R7 (rarity 7 on the Sheldon scale, estimated 4-12 pieces extant). Once you identify the obverse and reverse and know that you've got an LM-3.x remarriage, you can look at the Logan McCloskey book, p 73 (remarriage chart for Reverse T). For that workhorse die, the 12th use was on 1832 LM-8.5, where the serifs on IT become solid. When it progresses to its 13th and final use on 1833 LM-3.5, you see that dramatic break at NITE and the cud becomes complete, at which time the die is retired.

I spotted the remarriage, and felt like it was one I wanted for my set even though I figured PCGS would put a Details-Scratched slab on it. However, I was delighted to see that they felt like its condition was market acceptable as a straight-graded VF35 coin. Images below, just to share the sheer joy I'm experiencing! I'd link you to the True View images, but they haven't even posted those yet; their photo department has "up to 30 days after the coins are returned" to post the images. Quite a backlog. Anyway, I apologize in advance for uploading huge images - I am too n00b to know how to trim them down.

TL;DR-I bought a rare "details" coin but it's now my set piece for the remarriage.

 

Wow missed that one duh...you can bet its now on file and wont happen again.

 

Back in October when this coin was first posted by the OP, I just wasn't willing to call it an early state of the retained cud (3.5) although it was clearly at least a late state of the die crack (3.4). If a more experienced collector of H10s than me called it 3.5, then I won't argue with that and I take it as a learning experience.

Yes, JRCS census calls the 3.5 a R-7. You got a nice coin. The fact that it straight-graded is a great bonus but most of us would be happy to have a details R-7.

Again, great eye and pickup.