almost Guarantee this coin has been tooled

https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/l...pped-bust-half-dollar-unc-details-cleaned-ngc

It is pretty and affordable.

 

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Where are the tool marks? I would guess on some of the locks of hair, especially on the lowermost one, but I have no experience with this series.

 

I would rather have a straight grade example well because I want my first bustie to be just fine.

 

Yeah - the hair lines are just too fine for the grade.

 

If I could get that for the listed current bid of $80.00, I'd buy it.

 

I see no obvious evidence of tool-marks, but I do see wear.

 

Ah - there it is. One synagogue and two rabbis. So it is obvious to you that a 200 year old silver coin with that much wear should have such lovely clear details in the hair and about the face as it passed through historical collectors since the 1850s when the ANS was established, an era when they had no shyness about tooling coins at all?

 

Ms. Liberty’s hair is too sharp. It has been given enhanced detail from a fair amount of tooling. You see this most often on early large cents.