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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 8264757, member: 19250&quot;]You know sometimes you go a long time before you make a find...as a variety collector you do have some good finds,&nbsp; mostly when your funds don&#039;t align.&nbsp; However there&#039;s also varieties that you have hunted ,that somehow become your &quot;white whale&quot;&nbsp; mine still a 1858 rpd half dime either of the two be nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>But then you do get to hunt other varieties too while you sort though you needs.... realizing that there are quite a few&nbsp; to hunt down.</p><p>Last December I got lucky searching though some seated half dimes. I ran across a top 100 vatiety&nbsp; an 1855 o V-2 b Heavy reverse die crack @ small cud , with a mintage of 600,000 this is so rare no R number has yet been asigned ,somewhere in the &lt;10 known specimens to exist today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last week luck smiled again as I found another &quot;Top 100 varieties&quot; listed for the &lt;1855&gt; p&nbsp; h~10 . #73/100&nbsp; V- 4a bisecting die crack on the Reverse.&nbsp; This is again without an Rariety value R= ? As only &lt; 15 specimens known. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since I have been having so much luck with the &lt;1855&gt; date I went hunting again this morning and found this ...a&nbsp; V-7 </p><p>DDO-001 </p><p>Doubling seen on the horizontal bars on the shield&nbsp; Liberty, as well outside of shield. Top 100 varieties of &lt;1855&gt;. R- factor again hasn&#039;t been asigned as only &lt;12 specimens known.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The first set of images are of the &lt;1855&gt; o heavy reverse&nbsp; die crack,and cud . V-4a #75/100</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1458012[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next the V- 2b Bisecting die crack reverse #73/100 </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1458013[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1458014[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This morning find the. V-7 DDO 7th horizontal stripe on shield. </p><p>The image is the sellers. The other is reference to [ATTACH=full]1458015[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1458016[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1458017[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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