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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25376092, member: 101855&quot;]I am sorry you got stuck stuck, Randy. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are four reverses that are paired with the 1804 spiked chin variety. You fake piece was made from the most most common one, C-8. Despite that fact that the die was damaged early in its useful life, it outlasted all of those other reverses.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was collecting half cents by die variety 30+ years ago, I had them all. I still have have one piece left, which is an example of C-5. This one is somewhat scarce, and it was the die pair that was in place when the obverse die was injured to create the spiked chin. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1624560[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is big die break across the reverse that runs through the &quot;L&quot; in &quot;HALF CENT. It is my theory that the die was broken when it came in contact with the screw or whatever it was that made the spiked chin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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