1827 Bust Half: GTG & Overton Variety

Hello Bust Enthusiasts!
Fresh from PCGS...
Guess the Grade, and for a challenge Guess the Overton (Hint, Square Base 2).

Caught in the wild, photos are raw before submission.
Photography setup: Sony a6000 (macro settings), 10mm Macro Extension Tube, & a simple Axial Lighting setup (absolutely zero digital editing).

 

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It's out of my wheelhouse, but I would guess XF-40.

 

XF-45
J.T.

 

Wow!

I won't post until others have a chance to try to "Guess the Overton".

However, there is no mention of the die chip' in the field between the 7 and Star 13.

 

How many Overton's do you have?

Trying for the BHNC?

 

Treashunt, good eye on the diagnostics. What you see is a ding/hit, not a chip

 

XF45

 

big difference

 

VF-35 and O-137. An R-6 coin if my attribution is correct. Obverse 23, Reverse AC.

I don't see the little ding/hit hurting the grade. It's a mid-grade, old coin with really no other distracting marks.

Very nice acquisition. Hope you got it for a decent price. I suspect the BHNC members I know would be salivating.

 

I agree with XF-45.

 

Not 137, sadly. But it is a better DM. From the pic I would have no problem calling it a 40 to 45 grade.

 

A very high end VF. Not quite XF.

 

XF45

 

I'd go XF-40, possibly a 45 as several others also said.

 

I would never challenge you on an attribution since you're the expert on BHs and I'm only looking at a book (5th Edition of Overton/Parsley).

So, I downloaded, cropped and brightened the OP's photos and annotated them with notations on what I think makes it an O-137, at least according to the book. The book may be wrong or out of date, I wouldn't know.

Also, I cheated a bit. When I downloaded the OP's photo, the file name calls it an O-137.

 

XF? Nice coin.

 

Mea Culpa.

Never should have said anything until I got home and could look at the pic on a monitor instead of my phone. On my phone it didn't appear that the I in PLURIBUS was far enough left to be the 137. It also looked like I could see the lump above the E P that would have made it the 123.

 

AU50

 

why not?

 

XF40, nice coin.