The Collaborative "Virtual 7070" Type Set Project

Those poor little half dimes often did. Trimes, too. It was a big, tough world out there for a relatively thin little coin.

 

Good morning, and welcome to February 3rd.

Today our type will be the Liberty Seated Half Dime Arrows (1853-55).

Again, I lack a problem-free example of this type in my current collection, so I'm falling back on my "holey" type set.

Here goes. Hide your eyes if you're frightened of problem coins!

Not only does my holey collection have scary stuff, it also has crappy photographs. You can tell the stuff I shot with my phone. Maybe one day I will get decent photos of all the holeys, because... umm...

... just because. We know everybody wants to look at 'em, right? LOL





OK, enough of that.

Here at least is an acceptable example of the type that I used to own. Nothing earthshaking, but decent enough.

 

Good morning, and welcome to February 4th.

Today we'll move on to our next type, which is the Liberty Seated Half Dime Legend (1860-73).

As is embarrasingly usual, I do not have this type in my current holdings. So here's a holey from my corkboard collection, with the usual bad pics.

There is a cryptic notation in my filenames which says "dbld", so I gather there is some doubling on this coin somehwere?

I've had higher grade, problem-free examples of this type in the past (maybe even MS), but those coins have gone out of my memory and I do not have any pics of them. So the holey below will have to do.

 

Good question. Nope, considering it likely got holed about a century before I was born and I wasn’t around to see the “before”. I dunno.

I had a holey gold dollar one time where the hole obliterated half of a mintmark. Unfortunately the front (right) half. All that was left of the mintmark was its semicircular left half. So it had been either a C or an O. I posted pics on CU and had several experts look at it. The final consensus was that it had indeed been a Charlotte coin. If so, that’s the only C-mint I’ve ever owned.

 

Welcome to Thursday, February 5th.

Today we leave the half dimes and move into the nickels (copper-nickel 5-cent pieces, that is).

Our next type and the first of the nickels is of course the Shield Nickel with Rays (1866-67).

As I'm sure you're used to hearing by now, I do not currently have an example of this type in my slabbed primary collection.

So I'll fall back on my casual "holey collection". My holed example is below. Not very exciting, I know.

I do not recall what my past best (problem-free) Shield Nickel with Rays was. Maybe XF. Not sure. I know I've never had an MS example of the type.

 

Hello again, and welcome to February 6th. Today we move on to our next type, which is the Shield Nickel No Rays (1867-83).

For once I do not have to fall back on my "holey collection", as I do have one of these in my current primary collection.














What's that you say? You want to see my holey example anyway? (said nobody at all, ever)

OK, here 'tis.

 

Aww, c’mon. You’ve gotta have a little study in contrast sometimes.

 

I'm playing catch up.

With Rays:



No Rays: