GtG: 1804 Spiked Chin half cent

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@lordmarcovan?? Is she giving Us Tongue??

 

I went with 35 but truth be told I have no idea

 

I'll go with VF30.

 

I would go VF-30. The details are a little sharper, but the color is on the dark side. It is most common of the four Spiked Chin varieties with a small "bar" coming from the top of the "R" on the reverse. I think that is C-8, but I'm getting old.

EAC would be somewhere around VF-20. The ultra conservative EAC guys would call it a Fine.

 

I'm at VF25 with this one. I think it's an attractive coin but it has VF wear and I think there are few too many hits to grade higher than 25.

 

Guessing VF35. I heard long ago about this variety. Very cool.

 

I picked VF30, lovely coin either way.

 

Here is one of the few coins I kept from my half cent die variety collection that I sold many years ago. This is also a Spiked Chin, but it's the C-5 variety. There are four varieties with the Spiked Chin obverse and other reverses.

Cohen thought this was the variety that was on the press when the obverse was injured. Some people think that it might have been a screw with the head making the spike and the threads creating the ridges in the field.

The reverse is cracked on this variety which may have happened when the dies came together with the coin blank and screw between them.

NGC graded this coin EF-45 more than 20 years ago.

 

I think this one makes XF-40. Nice!

 

This is the C-8.

I would call this coin a TPG EF-40 but an EAC VF-25 sharpness, net VF-20 due to color and hit on cheek.

Solid example of the spiked chin variety which is always a neat coin.

 

And you will pay EF money for it, regardless of the grade the EAC puts on it. There is some game playing when it comes to EAC grading. Those guys never give their coins away.

 

Details- scratch

 

I went with 40. Have one in much lower grade with extensive rev cuds

 

I’m in the 30 camp.

 

There's no question of the truth in that statement and that is because the vast bulk of the price-setting market is in the TPG coins.

Nonetheless, I find value in the EAC grade standards. I never buy an early copper of any value without comparing the TPG grade with the EAC standards to see how much offset exists and why.

 

VF30