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1849 Seated Liberty Half Dime - Overdate?

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Nice RPD!
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Thanks for further thoughts and opinions. All welcomed and much appreciated.

Having looked through that book, Altaira, I think it most closely aligns with 8a (obverse) and 6 (reverse) on page 55. The photos were just a little too fuzzy to make much of.

It was also weirdly hard to navigate the page. There was a scroll up, but not a scroll down, I could use an arrow up or down for a press or two, but then it started moving the whole page. I could zoom in, but I couldn't maximise the "video". I was able to have a look at it all, but it was peculiar. Good resource, though. Cheers.

I also had to go have a look at photograde on PCGS to get a better understanding of what they meant about the fonts on the reverse. I only have a few Seated Liberty half dimes, so I didn't realise the variability in the fonts or the dates, for that matter. Dates really moved around a lot even in a given year, including 1849. And the reverse fonts varied wildly.

I'm still wondering what the little dag at the right of the 9 is. Is that PMD?

Here's another, better photo of the reverse.

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Tanner, thank you for that link, extremely helpful with a series of coin I know little about.
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I'm still wondering what the little dag at the right of the 9 is. Is that PMD?
To me, it looks like a possible die gouge. You can see it traveling northwest inside of the 9 too and no damage to the coin that I can tell, which is why I think it is maybe a die gouge.




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Thanks for that analysis of the 9, makecents, and noting the die crack first. And thanks, tanner, for further links. All help much appreciated.
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I don't think itis an over date, doesn't seem to match up with the NGC image
It's not an overdate and neither is the NGC image.
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Thanks for that analysis of the 9, makecents, and noting the die crack first



Actually Altaira mentioned it first and made me look again, I would typically notice such things but was paying too much attention to the date.

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I wish NGC has full photos of the coin to match that die crack



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And thanks, tanner, for further links. All help much appreciated.
Just so you know, Buf, Tanner (Tanman2001), is an attributer for the Wexler/doubleddie.com site which is one of the most highly thought of attributing sites and he is a VERY sharp individual, just sayin....

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