Post Your Bust Half dollars

Posted this one above but re-imaged it awhile back.



I've been casually researching my ancestry and discovered that my great-great-great grandfather was born in 1830, so it has personal significance as well and inspired me to collect a coin from each of my grandfathers' birth years going back as far as I can.

1830-1882 - MICHAEL COONEY--Many of our readers will remember Michael Cooney, of Greeley county, who came to Columbus some months since to purchase a span of horses for his farm, and will regret to hear that in returning home from Albion last week with a load of brick, he was thrown from the wagon and killed. He was a strong advocate of democracy and was always ready to stand by his belief.
Source:
The Columbus Democrat, July 22, 1882

 

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Nice contrast. Pretty easy to attribute, pointed top 6, no stem through eagle's claw so... O-109.

 

Bingo

 

A fun thread to scroll through! So many nice and interesting halves.

 

Yowza... sweet original early half.

 

Traded some silver bars for these last week.

 

Excellent deal, no matter how many silver bars you traded

 

I just pulled the trigger on this one - can't wait to get it. It was the best looking one I could find with my $140 budget. I suspect it's a retoned older cleaning, but I think it looks pretty great.

 

That toning!

 

Here's the best one I have owned by a wide margin. It's graded MS-64+, but I think it's a real MS-65.



This one is an example of John Reich's early die work.

 

I can see Lewis and Clark pawing that piece.

 

Just getting started in Bust Halves so I’m tryin to figure this out. From what I see the 106a is a single leaf reverse but this coin looks to have both leaves. Where is my thinking going wrong?

 

Thought we were talking 1817 not 1818. Figured it out once I saw the right picture. My bad

 

@JM43
Even though the 1817 106a is probably the most common of the "single leaf reverses" I don't happen to have an example.

Here's the early die state, though.