1773 Virginia Halfpenny/Halfpence (variety request)

Howdy fellow coin peeps, :thumb:

One of my 1773 Virginia Half-Pennies came in today and I'm not sure if the seller got the variety right. He listed it as a Newman 2-D, No Stop After GEORGIVS, Seven Harpstrings, 117.1 grains.

I cannot tell if there are 7 or 8 harpstrings, even possibly 9, so I'm hoping someone here will know these good enough to tell how many harpstrings there are and what variety it is. :bow:

Ribbit

 

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I don't have the Newman reference but I see it as no stop after Georgivs and six harp strings. (I believe there are some 30 obv and 40 rev dies used to strike these halfpennies. So without the book I'm afraid I can't help you further.)

 

There isn't a stop after Georgius but there are 7 harp strings. The pic of the reverse shows the 7 harp strings the best but I added the close-up of the harp in case there was 8. I don't know where they start/stop and didn't know if there was one more in the small part of the harp, which would have made it 8 harp strings.

Ribbit

Ps: I took a better pic of the harp so the strings are easier to see and I added it to the post with the pics. :kewl:

 

You're right, seven. I have problems counting things like that especially in enlarged pictures the depth of field keeps reversing on me and I can't keep straight which are the strings and which are the areas between the strings. Helps if I close one eye. Then they don't fight to keep focused with each other which causes the image to shift back and forth a little.

 

Nice coin toad.