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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;petro89, post: 1551531, member: 17048&quot;]In 1953, there were multiple versions of the half dollar.&nbsp; If I remember correctly, the first several halves were struck, and then there was an uproar because it appeared as if the queen was not wearing anything on her upper body.&nbsp; So they later added two curved lines to appear as if there was a shoulder strap so it looked like she was wearing a dress or gown.&nbsp; So the first distinction is &quot;shoulder strap&quot; or &quot;no shoulder strap&quot; (sometimes also called shoulder fold or no shoulder fold).&nbsp; Other than the two lines you can also tell between the two if you look at the letter &quot;I&quot; in the word &quot;DEI&quot; on the obverse.&nbsp; In the earlier no strap variety, the I is more like an I or )( while the strap variety is a straight line like |.&nbsp; If you look at yours, you can clearly see she has no strap, and the i has the flared ends so you have a no-strap variety (also compare the I to the I in your 1957 to see the difference).</p><p><br /></p><p>To confuse everyone more, there are two varieties of the no-strap!&nbsp; Large date and small date.&nbsp; I think the &quot;3&quot; is what you need to look at and compare how close the hoof of the unicorn-type animal comes to the 3.&nbsp; The small date no-strap carries a small premium over the strap variety, but the big one to get is the large-date no-strap.&nbsp; There were very few of these compared to the other two.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is easily a $100-150 or more coin in MS.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll check the difference in the large date and see what yours is, but IIRC the small date has a larger gap between the hoof and the 3, while the large date is closer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll do some research[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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