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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 995260, member: 66"]?you can't just make a couple of comparisons with these coins and decide it's bad because it doesn't match the ones you looked at. There are 19 different obv dies for his coin, each of which has had the date digits stars and letter all punch into the die individually by hand. The date wanders a fair amount. On this one note how the point of the bust fits way down into the star, and on the reverse it has seven berries on the left branch and nine on the right. Those features are unique to those two dies. (Obv 7 comes close but the point of bust is not a deeply placed, and the first star on left does not completely pierce the curl.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is obv 18 rev V, O-131, an R-4 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are images of an O-131 from Coinfacts</p><p><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/flowing_hair_half_dollars/1795_half_dollars/1795_half_dollar_o131_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/flowing_hair_half_dollars/1795_half_dollars/1795_half_dollar_o131_rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 995260, member: 66"]?you can't just make a couple of comparisons with these coins and decide it's bad because it doesn't match the ones you looked at. There are 19 different obv dies for his coin, each of which has had the date digits stars and letter all punch into the die individually by hand. The date wanders a fair amount. On this one note how the point of the bust fits way down into the star, and on the reverse it has seven berries on the left branch and nine on the right. Those features are unique to those two dies. (Obv 7 comes close but the point of bust is not a deeply placed, and the first star on left does not completely pierce the curl.) This one is obv 18 rev V, O-131, an R-4 coin. Here are images of an O-131 from Coinfacts [IMG]http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/flowing_hair_half_dollars/1795_half_dollars/1795_half_dollar_o131_obv.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/flowing_hair_half_dollars/1795_half_dollars/1795_half_dollar_o131_rev.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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