The Collaborative "Virtual 7070" Type Set Project

I'm happy you enjoyed it. I might have to rewatch it myself

 

It will be Saturday the 31st in a few minutes, so I'll start us off on our next type, which is the...

3C Piece Nickel (1865-1889).

Though I presently lack a problem-free example in my primary collection, I have owned a few nice pieces of this type in the past:

1866 PCGS MS62+ (modest MS grade but great toning and eye appeal)


1880 PCGS PR64 (looked better than these pics)


1888 PCGS PR65 CAM (my all-time best of type)




Then of course there is the holed example from my holey corkboard type set.

 

Oh- before we move on into the 3cN, here is one more 3cS I forgot I used to own. Actually the only MS example I've had (though I had one proof as well).

 

I really like this coin. I had an example I liked less, and I finally upgraded it in the last two years

 

February 1st brings us to our next type, and now we begin the five-cent pieces.

Our type today is the Capped Bust half dime (1829-1837), or the “Baby Busties”, as I affectionately refer to them.

I again have to fall back on my holey type set here.

Here is the only Capped Bust half dime I presently own, aside from an 1829 in my detecting finds album, which is also holed. (Yes, I did dig one once!)






This PCGS F12 Is the only problem-free example I’ve had in the last several years. But I sold it.



My best problem-free example of all time was likely no better than VF30-35, I reckon. Maybe, just maybe, an XF. But I do not recall.

 

If I had a PCGS MS65 CAC, I wouldn't feel the need to look for another one, either!

 

Nice finds! The 1829 I dug is low grade and holed.

Here's live video of my local dig buddy and detecting mentor Steve Smith, popping an AU-details 1831 CBHD at one of my favorite hunting sites on Saint Simons Island. Go to about 4:45 in the video.

 

Oh yeah. Just another day for him. And rocks are not a thing down here in our sandy South GA coastal soil.

Lemme tell you, Steve Smith is a Jedi-class detectorist. He was my very first detecting mentor, back in 1981 when I was a pimple-faced teenaged kid swinging an old TR detector. The stuff he has found is amazing. And the stuff is out there, if you go to the right sites, but few people will actually find the goodies. Steve does. He is just that skilled.

On one site on the waterfront of our town (Brunswick, Georgia), Steve dug a 1781 Spanish gold escudo AND a beautiful 1907 US $10 Liberty gold piece! Two gold coins on the same site! (Plus a super high grade 1917 Type 1 Standing Liberty quarter.) He said the gold coins were mixed in with a lot of melted lead waste, which had to have made them very challenging to find.

I hunted the same site and got pulltabs, aluminum can fragments, and a broken 1990s-vintage Spiderman kid's wristwatch. LOL.

Steve is one of those people who makes it look easy. It isn't.

 

It is time for our next type: the Liberty Seated Half Dime Drapery (1837-59).

While I’ve owned some decent examples of this type in the past, I currently do not have one except in my “Holey” collection. And I can’t find any pics of my past highlights. So that just leaves me with the holey.

Look, somebody shot poor Lady Liberty in the head with a cannon!

 

I love those mintmarks inside the wreath, for some reason.