1841-O Half Dollar - What Do You Think (PCGS)?

EF-45

The die cracks sold me on this one.

I'll go a bit higher than the rest and say AU50, very nice .

I would be lying if I said that the die cracks did not catch my attention first!

Once again you guys were all over this one.

I got this one set aside from J.J.Teaparty.



I mentioned Eliasberg earlier and that this one looked familiar. I picked up a few Gobrecht Club pamphlets from a CCF Memeber and the Eliasberg Half graced the front and back covers;

(I left the clear, large images from Heritage at the house computer . Here is an interim image.)



Louis had a MS63 version which shows the "character cracks" a lot better than this circulated version.

Early Die Stage WB-101's (Large Mint Mark) of course do not exhibit the same cracked die lines, like the one (AU58 or 55) that is going to be auctioned off at Long Beach in September. I feel that the die cracks (not quite the famous "baseball crack") add lots of character to the coin!

I am defiantly looking froward to placing this beauty in the Half Dollar tray.

Thanks for playing along.

I was too slow to change out images a couple posts back, so here is the Eliasberg example images from Heritage;

She made bail and is finally on her way to my 7070 family.

Yep, I saw the error the day after and I could not correct it. Besides, it was 1:10 am.


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