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Posted 11/10/2022 11:02 am
Number 1 hands down for me. The darker originality is gorgeous. The one notable scratch on the right obverse field looks like it toned over a LOOONG time ago. The die break on IC is an attractor to me. (In my area of interest, capped bust Half Dimes, the " Cud coins" which includes internal die breaks like that one command a huge premium and get snapped up.)
Regarding number 2, the graffiti on the obverse as already mentioned, and the general cleaniness of the coin, would always make me unhappy.
Having said that: I don't know about the die pairs / varieties in dollar coins. But in the Half Dimes, if I put two coins side by side and they were both pretty - but one was an R1 rarity and the other was an R6 - I'd be heavily biased toward the R6!
You're looking at $8,000 coins there, so I'm going to assume you're already way ahead of me on the die pairs. But it does look like the one with the " Cud" on IC is B5 or BB-65. Not sure of a good resource to identify the other.
https://www.PCGS.com/coinfacts/coin...-sm-lt/40002
Regarding number 2, the graffiti on the obverse as already mentioned, and the general cleaniness of the coin, would always make me unhappy.
Having said that: I don't know about the die pairs / varieties in dollar coins. But in the Half Dimes, if I put two coins side by side and they were both pretty - but one was an R1 rarity and the other was an R6 - I'd be heavily biased toward the R6!
You're looking at $8,000 coins there, so I'm going to assume you're already way ahead of me on the die pairs. But it does look like the one with the " Cud" on IC is B5 or BB-65. Not sure of a good resource to identify the other.
https://www.PCGS.com/coinfacts/coin...-sm-lt/40002
