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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Droidicus, post: 413565, member: 15422&quot;]Thanks for everyone&#039;s comments. I will say that I made two mistakes here...</p><p>1) Don&#039;t go to a coin show and buy an expansive coin immediately after coming off a 9 year break in collecting.</p><p>2) Make sure you have an accurate pricing reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had notes for type value prices of current bust halves, but it looks like they were quite a bit high for whatever reason, should have checked a grey sheet before I went any further.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately no, I have attributed it as a O-102, which is a R.1</p><p><br /></p><p>This is typical of the die pair. In general the 1931&#039;s were made with sub-par dies, and the O-102&#039;s are notorious for weakness. In fact I have seen pictures of O-102 in MS condition where the stripes on the shield are completely filled in. In terms of the variety this is actually fairly well struck <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So here is the deal. It was marked MS-63, I knew that wasn&#039;t the case but I did think that it was around AU-58 when I bought it. The toning really caught me, I literally saw it from the next table over and had to have it (it looks a lot nicer in real life, I might need to buy a new camera to get better pictures). Now that I have it and spent some more time with it I am thinking it is closer to AU-55. My pricing reference said AU-50 was $400 and MS-60 was $1,100, so with as nice as the toning was I didn&#039;t feel too bad paying $1,200 for it. Now that I think it is AU-55 and I see from below that my reference pricing was wrong I defiantly made a mistake!</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well, live and learn, I will send it in to a TPG to get a second opinion, especially since the value changes with grade quite quickly on the upper end of bust halves. There is always the posibility that I will get a nice supprise out of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Droid[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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