Your rarest Us Coin

Nope. Google it. It's a perfect fit for Liberty's head on the $20 design.

 

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One day you're gonna sell me that one. Is it still raw?

 

I just picked these rarities off a eBay auction and a buy it now in the last two days.


The first is the S-156 with the reverse of 95(96) which was previously used on the S-82, S-83 and S-84 Liberty Caps. It is R5+ or 31-45 known. It was unattributed. I picked this up Monday.

The second was called a 1798. It is immediately recognizable as the last 1797 obverse with style 2 letters and the 7 embedded in the drapery and with the stemless reverse pairing is the S-143. It is an R5 or 46-60 known. I picked this up Tonight. It goes well with my S-142 R5+.

 

Those coins look more like road kill. Are you seriously telling me that they are collectible?

 

I don't know. I was trying to match up the $20 when I noticed the more obtuse angles on the neck and chin clashes of your coin than the $20. It.s definitely not a seated design. Perhaps the 57 Large Cent?

 

Yes.

 

Early green label PCI.

 

I'm pretty sure it's the $20.

 

It's definitely the same as the Snow-7, but the angles just seem off to me.

 

You're lower arrow on the gold is not pointing far enough down the neck of Lady Liberty. Plus the tilt is a little offline.

 

Perhaps you're right. But when I rotated the coin about 7 degrees more, the chin was even further off:

I honestly don't know if there is a difference in angle on the Eagle or how the measurements of the elements would calculate out.

 

That should resolve that. Image courtesy of http://www.maddieclashes.com/mule-die-clashes/

 

and here's @Marshall 's image layered in PS, instead of side by side:

 

Don't have anything rare. This 1885 quarter eagle has a mintage of 800, PCGS guesstimates a survival of 300 business strikes (R-6.4) and has graded 65 of them, NCG has graded 44, ANACS 27.

 

Thank you very much. The difference appears to be that the chin angle on the coin is from closer to the edge of the chin than I was looking and thus more obtuse. Excellent overlay. It was what I was attempting to do, but did poorly.

 

I'd be interested in any road kill you come across.

 

Here is one Marshall used to own.

 

Is that last digit in the date a "9" by chance?

 

Yep.

 

Very nice!