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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 4652926, member: 105571&quot;]I can&#039;t find any reference to anything like this in Valentine, Blythe, or Flynn.&nbsp; Also, nothing like it in Steve Crain&#039;s image collection;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/imagecollection/514182" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/imagecollection/514182" rel="nofollow">https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/imagecollection/514182</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It would be nice to have a much clearer and closer shot of the date numerals but here&#039;s a couple of thoughts:</p><p><br /></p><p>-&nbsp; The 8 does not look like a blundered punchmark, more like PMD.</p><p>-&nbsp; The 8 looks to be much lower than the 1, 5 and 3.&nbsp; Odd.</p><p>-&nbsp; The 5 looks quite strange, not like any 5 I have seen on a 1853 w/Arrows or really like any other LS half-dime I&#039;ve seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1853 w/arrows is one of the most common of all LS half dimes and there are like 78 obverses and 80 reverses and a bunch of mules.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it could be a contemporary counterfeit so I would do a dimensional and weight check.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if I had to guess without any further information, I&#039;d say this is PMD caused by someone trying to do something but what I cannot fathom.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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