Help with identifying a Jr on a 1829 caped dime!

My wife got me my first caped bust for Christmas as well with 2 other coins I'll post in a post a little later! But I was wondering how I identify the jr variety on it I do know it's the small 10c. Any help is appreciated and I do know it's a low grade but she was extremely excited it had a mintage less than 800,00 what do you think it is graded

 

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Here is a graphic courtesy of USACoinbook.com
My untrained eye says you've got the small 10¢ but I'm often wrong. Nice gift BTW

 

VG-10

 

It does appear to be the small date.

 

I’m sure that’s the small date.

 

Thank you guys! I was also wondering what the Jr variety would be on it? I noticed ngc and pcgs listed them but I have no clue how to go about identifying bust varieties. When I goggled it it took me nowhere

 

Sorry, I just re-read your post and realized you already identified the small 10¢. I don't know how to identify the JR variety. Others will know.

 

Thanks for the correction! And yes it's an anacs slab. I've never owned one but I've always been fascinated with the design of them and the history they could tell. And now that I got one I think I'm going to put the whole set together

 

Looks to be JR-4.

First, it is a small 10C. The small C's are JR-3,4,5,6,7, and 8. On 5 through 8 the scroll extends too far past the first stand of the M in AMERICA to be your coin narrowing it down to JR-3 or 4. On the obverse of JR-3 Star 3 points to the upper half of a dentil while on JR-4 (and it appears on yours) it points between 2 dentils.

 

I was going to attribute your dime yesterday but I was too full of Christmas cheer to attempt it. Anyway, I agree that it's the JR-4, Small 10C die marriage consisting of Obverse 3, Reverse D. This is a R-2 rarity so one of the more common ones.

Attached are the pickup points for the obverse and reverse dies.

From the photos, I couldn't be sure of the following:
- double denticle between Stars 3 and 4;
- S8 recut
- F recut to right.
- the three pale gules in the eagle's shield are mushy even in high-grade examples much less well-circulated coins. But if you compare the width of the verticals you can see that the merged verticals are a little wider than the two pale gules varieties.

I grade it as G-06.

I attribute these dimes using the Early United States Dimes 1796-1837 by Davis, Logan, Loverjoy, McCloskey and Subjack, published 1984.

I also use a little quickfinder guide that I take to shows called Bust Dime Variety Identification Guide by Zack, Scuderi and Sherrill, published 2015.

Nice wife to buy you a sweet little bust dime. Keep both.

 

I’m not into JR varieties so I can’t help. I will say that Bust coinage is Addictive. It’s a lovely design and even with wear, the design still shows nicely. I’m partial to the Bust Half Dollars. I bought one about 7 years and I now own a lot more than that. Lol

 

Thank you for the attribution! I appreciate it. It sure dose seam like a heck of a process to identify them but I'm sure determined to learn.

 

Thank you! I tryed my best to get good pictures but the slab wasn't letting that happen. And thanks for the info on the books I will definitely be looking into getting those. And your right on the grade anacs gave it at a g6. But when I used photo grade to compare it I thought it was more of a vg but I'm not the experts.

 

It sure is addictive I haven't really been able to sit it down I'm hooked on the design Im definitely gonna be putting something together with them

 

I don't know anyone who collects bust half dollars. Must get lonely

 

I just find them Irresistible