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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 1672025, member: 11854&quot;]It looks real to me and although I am not iGradeMS70, I <i>did </i> stay at a Holiday Inn at the Baltimore show last week.&nbsp; What Brian wrote is that the coin is die marriage O.111a, which means that in the Overton book (the standard reference for die marriages for 1794-1836 half dollars) the obverse and reverse die pair are given the designation O.111 and that this is die state &quot;a&quot;.&nbsp; The rarity rating is R4, which is an estimation that there are from 76 to 200 pieces extant with this die marriage.&nbsp; The date of 1806 has the 6 punched on top of an inverted 6 and this can be seen in the image as a loop extending upward on the right side of the 6 in the date.&nbsp; The cud is the attached metal between the rim and UN and ED of UNITED on the reverse.&nbsp; This shows advanced die wear and die breakage/crumbling.&nbsp; The rarity rating of a coin with this die state might be even more scarce than an R4 (R5 or higher).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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