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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 25729547, member: 105571&quot;]The latest addition to the Capped Bust Half Dime Die Marriage collection.&nbsp; This is the 1830 LM-2 die marriage.&nbsp; It&#039;s only a Rarity 3 - 201 to 500 known - but in the three years I&#039;ve been collecting these, this is the first I&#039;ve seen offered for sale.&nbsp; There are several others in this series that likewise seem to be more elusive than the official rarity rating.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1998 Logan-McCloskey reference book on this series says:&nbsp; &quot;Examples of this die marriage are difficult to obtain above VF.&quot;&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t look like things have changed in the intervening 26 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would normally not have bought this coin at this grade except for its elusive nature.&nbsp; Plus, I guess this coin would qualify as &quot;crusty&quot; or maybe even &quot;extremely crusty&quot;, a characteristic that I normally find unattractive.&nbsp; So this coin will be coded in the set database as potential for upgrade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, this coin was won in a Heritage auction.&nbsp; Normally, I follow and bid live but in this case I input a proxy bid at the highest I was willing to go a few days before the auction and then ignored it.&nbsp; It hammered at $30 less than my maximum bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1643961[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1643962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1643963[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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