1805 Bust Half Die Variety?

Anyone know what variety it is?

Best pics I have at the moment

 

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I'm going to hazard a guess at O-112, looks like Obverse 7 and Reverse H from the star/beak and leaf/I relationships.

 

Capped Bust's are easy (most of the time), but I've never gotten the hang of draped busts.

 

Just like a good start on Busties is star locations vs. denticles and the I - T relationship on the reverse, these narrow down quickly via the locations of the 1 and top/bottom stars relative to the L/Y and bust/hair. On the reverse look for the relationships between leaves and the bottoms of the nearest letter, and in many cases the relationship between the nearest star and beak.

 

@Treashunt, @Jim M ..........they eat these things for breakfast.

 

Yes, hard to see with those dark pictures, but I agree.

Looks like O-112

 

See ya later Ken

 

I'm not a copper collector, but was that coin cleaned a long time ago?

 

not copper, silver half dollar

and I would 'suffer' with it all day long

 

Yeah, I don't know why I said copper. Early morning, pre-coffee, I guess (I'm half-way around the world right now). But my question remains.

 

There is no way to know for sure, and those pictures aren't really the best for judging the surfaces, but I'm not seeing anything that jumps out and indicates cleaning.

 

Tooled and corroded.

Thanks everyone! I'll upload a better pic of this coin later!

 

Really? Well, I'll eat my hat now. Your pics really fooled me.

 

On he reverse next to the S in States. It looks like the tooling was done to try and mask the corrosion. Still a nice looking coin in hand with a lot of detail. VF details net was either VG/F

 

Better pics

 

Didn't have a chance to check it until just now but it is definitely O-112 (Or T-2 in the new Tompkins book.)