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1856 1/2c Braided Hair Half Cent #2

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 Posted 05/06/2020  3:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jerryc39 to your friends list
looks vf-30 or so
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 Posted 05/06/2020  3:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
This is the coin in comparison to the vf30 plate coins in photograde. I think mine looks better.

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 Posted 05/06/2020  6:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fenton to your friends list
Looks just like one I have at VF-35 so I'll say VF-35
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 Posted 05/06/2020  6:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Can't see enough detail in these pics to grade.
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 Posted 05/07/2020  2:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add panzaldi to your friends list
Maybe VF30
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 Posted 05/07/2020  2:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IndianGoldEagle to your friends list
EF-40 but not sure what the surfaces look like.
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 Posted 05/07/2020  3:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add johnjkedel to your friends list
I'm in at EF40 - nice coin. Yeah the pics could be a little better but not that bad.
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 Posted 05/11/2020  6:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
Some prominent obverse hits, but great surfaces. Beautiful reverse. Looks AU to me. Thoughts?

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 Posted 05/11/2020  6:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Hate to be a naysayer, but I think this is AU details (gouges). I don't see this in a straight holder.
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 Posted 05/11/2020  6:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
i disagree. they look like hits and not gouges. hits don't detail a coin. I don't see this in a details holder.
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 Posted 05/11/2020  7:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
You paid a below-market price for a sub-par coin. Just my opinion.
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 Posted 05/11/2020  7:21 pm  Show Profile   Check Zurie's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Zurie to your friends list
Looks like AU-53 sharpness, but with the heavy contact marks and the surface irregularity on the reverse (planchet defect?), I would say AU-50 straight.
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 Posted 05/11/2020  7:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numis-Northerner to your friends list
Gonna have to agree with the small green amphibian, looks details to me, nice example still though.
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 Posted 05/11/2020  7:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
The gouges, or call them what you will, are the first thing you see when you look at this coin - you never even get to the rest of it.

If you bought this from the pics you originally posted, you must surely be disappointed.
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 Posted 05/14/2020  5:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
not disappointed at all. bought the coin at a great price.
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