WOW. Now this is a first.

I wonder if anyone on this Seated Liberty forum will post anything in the half dime sub-forum:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/seateddimes/seated-half-dime-q-a-f67/?amp=1

Not much gets posted there, but I do like to check it out every couple of months. The fact that three people placed high bids (and were likely aware of the coin’s variety) would lead me to believe there’s a good chance someone will post about it on the Seated Liberty forum.

 

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Could have been shill bidding by people the seller knows. Not accusing but throwing it out there as a real possibility.

 

Priceless. Totally priceless. That perfectly paints a picture of the reaction! I can totally see him throwing his keyboard, getting up from his computer desk and throwing a tantrum over it like his team lost the big game. Karma is gonna get us for laughing though lol.

 

Heh, well at the end of the day judging by the bids it appears the coin was bought and sold for a fair price for both the buyer and seller so that’s good.

eBay/sniping can definitely play with your sanity though...

 

Sniping drives me nuts. I put in min bids for things I really don't want but wind up getting and outbid by what I want. Tough to compete with sniping by bots though.

 

I have to admit even as a half dime collector and variety collector this was off my radar.
As John stated it is rare and a great find if in deed if is the correct mint mark.
1839 New Orleans used 2 different mm on the reverse to mint some 1,060,000. H-10 minted.
The Large mm O was first used on the 1838 o half dimes. So they repurposed at least 1 38 o rev. Die.
Where it gets interesting is that the 3 major sorces on h 10's did disagree on a sm, med. And lg. Mm on 1839 o half dimes.
However... there are only 2 1839 O mm size . Med, and lg.... small doesn't exist.
Now consider this...the difference between the med. O and the Lg. O is .2 mm !
There is also some placement, and shape markers. Neither IMHO plus the .2 mm difference do I believe could be determined by the given images.
I do believe at 3 people decieded with a 30 return and the possible odds why not take a shot.
Here's another fact which amazed me in 1839 new orleans mint had 6 obv. And 6 rev. Dies as many times when you research the number of dies no records were kept. But at least 1 1838 O die was used or repurposed making me believe that one of the 6 4ev. Dies for 1839 was damaged and the 38 O rev. Used in its place.
Raw number to consider... so if 6 pairs of 1839 o minted 1,060,000. Divided by 6 = 176,666.66666* may of been* struck on each die set.
And again a nice vf 1839 O h-10 $100/120. But this definitely makes the point of one can never research enough as that extra read could mean a buy or pass on a very rare specimen.

 

I only found out about it when I looked at Heritage. Got lucky by typing in "1839 O H10c R.6," on a hunch. Bingo, got a hit. Whodathunk!?!

 

I pride myself on my memory to recall quite a few varieties. However there's so many....and one cannot remember all of them.
But like they say a blind pig sometimes finds a truffle

Gerry Fortin has even more data on this variety.

 

Now here's a little something.....this coin belongs to a member here....,if they didn't sell... is the 103 variety. Die crack on obv. And mm lines up perfect. Correct large O variety

 

it's not really a cherrypick if you pay close to full price, is it?

 

This looks like a smaller O than the OP coin.

 

Look up the pups..... can't uses "smaller" as a term it either med or lg..... and .2 mm difference.

 

The large O is the V-1 according to the Breen book, you, and a few others called this a V-5 in this thread here.

I no longer own it so it's no longer my dog

 

Yes the Ebay coin has a larger O than that one.

 

Agree

 

My rationale: If I bid my absolute max and get totally nuked, then I just walk away. It just means I have more money for the next big thing.