1812 Half Dollar With Initials Under Shield

Aw, that's a huge clash & counterclash. Outstanding. Insane. Furthermore, the dies had to be rotated when it all happened. I'm still wrapping my mind around how it worked, but your pics are plenty clear-enough to show the features as being raised on the coin, proving it happened at the Mint.

This is glorious.

Very nice.

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Just in case you didn't know, lynn, Susan is the co-founder of Coin Community, a professional numismatist, a really cool person and someone you can trust with your last (half) dollar.

might I add, please stay away from this dealer that you took your coin to. If he does not know what a 1812 Capped Bust half dollar is when its in his hand, he may be in the wrong business. I guess I can understand a fairly secluded bullion dealer not knowing what a clashed die looks like but even those should know what designs are on the coins of what specific years

Very unique coin.

I am no expert, but I think the letter detail under the shield is too storng to be a clashed die. Maybe the planchet was used for test strikes or something of that sort and then restruck as a complete coin later on.

I DO NOT think it is a case of clashed dies.

I think that the coin is an overstrike from another coin, and some of the original detail has survived. Is there any evidence of planchet weight adjustment?

Considering the date, I have read that the practice of overstriking of other coins was not all that unusual.

Nevertheless even as an overstrike, still a very interesting coin. More research is obviously required.

It is a clashed die. If it had been struck over another coin the field area and the stripes would be the least likely areas for traces of the original coin to remain because those would be the first places crushed in the second strike.

Someone told me that this coin might be a large 8. Any ideas or suggestions? We have decided to have this graded and I will continue to update the coin community of the outcome of that grading process.