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1862-S Half Dollar For Grading

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XF-40 for me
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EF-40 for me. (A small obverse rim ding that I don't believe would affect the grade).

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I am at XF-40 also.
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The coin appears cleaned and I'm not sure it would grade but if it did then VF35 would be my guess.
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I'd guess VF-25

This looks like a WB-103...however I am far from an expert.

http://blog.davidlawrence.com/index...lars-1862-s/

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Thanks for the link on varieties. I can check out the varieties on some of my other halves. I would agree that this is WB-103. The placement of the mint mark is correct and the top of the mint mark is missing. I previously thought that the missing top loop for the S was from die polishing.

BH1964 - I do not see any evidence of cleaning on the coin in hand.
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Always happy to pass along that information to another collector.

I'm glad that book is available online since physical copies are costly.

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BH1964 - I do not see any evidence of cleaning on the coin in hand.


That is good. I had it on my 22" desktop monitor earlier and it was as big as a dinner plate. The circled areas showed hairlines but it's likely more than market-acceptable when viewed at a reasonable size.

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I see what you are seeing in the photographs. It is a circulated coin, so there are light marks across basically all surfaces. I spent quite a bit of time looking at the coin at all orientations through a hand lens before writing this, and still do not see anything like consistent or uniform hairlines that could be from a cleaning. I think that the lighting is highlighting certain orientations. The photo was taken with a single very bright light near the top of the coin and I think that is preferentially showing scratches that run side to side.
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EF-40.
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with XF40.
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