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Getting harder to find coins I need. Here are a few recent pickups.   |
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Getting harder to find coins I need. Here are a few recent pickups. Excellent! |
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@Elmer Flick (I don't know if this board supports tagging, btw - help!) I wanted to send a note of kudos. The 1835 capped bust Half Dime that you showed with the large date / large 5c is in fact an LM-2, and that is NOT an easy marriage to find! I have been actively searching for and buying these baby busties in pursuit of the big 123-coin set of all die marriages and remarriages. Three days shy of the 2-year-anniversary of my first acquisition, I completed all 92 marriages - with the finding (finally!) of an 1835 LM-2. It's rated by the Logan-McCloskey book as R4 (76 to 200 pieces extant). The John Reich Collectors Society, which surveys the market, still lists it as R4. But my personal sense is it could be an R5 coin (31 to 75 pieces). It's hard to prove a negative, though - i.e., that the 76th to 200th LM-2 do not exist. PS. I no longer have all 92 marriages since I sold some that didn't cross to PCGS. And I may have a LONG wait to find all 123 remarriages, as one or two of them are super tuff. |
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Thanks Bikergeek! If you just go by retail prices in Greysheet you'd never think that the 1835 Large date/Large 5 was that difficult. It looks like they used the same 5 punch on both the obverse and reverse dies.
I'm contemplating going after the 3/inverted 3 varieties. How tough are those?
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@ElmerFlick, the 1835 Large Dt/Large 5c is not tough. But that's because the other die marriages that fit that description are much more common than the LM-2. Look at the image below, page 256 of the Logan-McCloskey book, "Federal Half Dimes 1792-1837." It's a matrix of the 6 1835 obverses (three large date, three small date) and the 9 reverses (named with letters; some of the reverses are used for years besides 1835 too). In the upper left quadrant of the die marriage matrix, you see there are five LM-x die marriages with large dates (i.e., they use obverse 1, 2, or 3) and large 5c (using reverse P, AA, BB, Z, or DD). Your LM-2 is 1835 obverse 1 and reverse Z. Finding LM-2 was tough for me, but I see oodles of LM-1, 3, 4, and 7. Regarding your question on the 3/inv3: finding the 1836 LM-3 is super easy. Finding either the 1834 LM-1 or LM-3 (both have that inverted 3) is a bit tougher but still definitely possible. If you have questions, please feel free to holler!  |
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Bikergeek  Great posts to kick off a CCF membership. Elmer you have certainly done an outstanding job in a short amount of time in building up that collection. Thanks for sharing your coins with us. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Really enjoyed your story of building this collection IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Lunchtime pickup today.   |
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Lunchtime pickup today. Very nice! |
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Here is a very difficult & underrated coin from the Seated half dime series. Most you will see have been heavily cleaned. After several months of searching, I finally found this one for sale via an internet search.   |
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Outstanding! |
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You have to take them as you find them, when you find them. I don't look for them but I'm always in the market when I see one. Your 1863-S is what I typically find, but it's so rare to find one at all.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Thanks to Brian Greer for this low mintage Half Dime.   |
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Quote: Thanks to Brian Greer for this low mintage Half Dime. Fantastic! |
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