This is a new eBay purchase I just won. I bid on it before the reverse was posted hoping no one else would ID it. I will admit that I was a little disappointed after the reverse was posted, but just a little. I had hoped for the other pairing of this obverse die due to the late die state. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&item=250776942683&si=JmZOz87VN9lRmR1jg25qa%252BTZ%252B7s%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT I can't wait to get it in and find out if the right field is a scratch or a heretofore unknown break. If it were a break, then it would be yet another example of an interrupted die pairing.
You would have to have gone more than double to get it. I'll post better pictures when it comes in. It looks almost like a twin to the Holmes coin which was called VF30 net VF20. Perhaps this is just a bit lower due to porosity and some damage on the reverse, but it's in the ballpark. But the die state is very close. I really thought it had a chance to be the second NC-7 until they posted the reverse.
It came in this afternoon. I don't think I actually said what I think the attribution is though you can probably figure it out from my disappointment. What do you guys think it is and did I get it right? By the way, I didn'y capture it, but it does have the Edge V interupted diagonal reeding. It weighs in at a full 168 grains and the planchet definitely feels more solid than most of my draped busts.
:bangg::bangg::computer: The more I look at it the more off I get. At first I thought no stems and then stems. So I will have to take a break on this.
