1800 Draped Bust Half Dime

It's nice. I love any coin with the Heraldic Eagle reverse! littleboy's diagnostics do indeed make yours a LIBEKTY variety. I looked at some images on CoinFacts and the top of the 1 is much higher than the 8 on all the LIBERKTYs pictured there as is yours.

Vermont, you can compare your coin with mine which is indeed the LIBEKTY variety. There is usually weakness in the center reverse (on the stars, right facing wing, and ribbon) due to damage to the die. These are very cool coins and quite scarce in all grades.

jaobler, what TPG is that, NCS? Looks to be about VF30/35 range.

Thanks kenkat! I'm a big fan of the Draped Bust coinage. I think it's a beautiful design. Now if only we can get our act together and make a design as beautiful as this for our modern coinage......just wishful thinking.

Hmmm, I don't see anything except, if I was looking at this coin at a coin show, I might suspect it has been cleaned at some point due to the brighter white obverse. Other than that, I see some spotty toning but if PCGS was thinking something along the lines of AT for example, I'd have to disagree. They are very tough on early copper and silver. Like I said, you have a beautiful coin.
I'm thinking about slabbing mine eventually, for now, it's in an airtite.

Thanks Johnny

Those Bar Cents are certainly cool. I almost bought one once at a show but, diagnostically, it didn't look right so I passed, and, it was going to break my bank pretty good. All genuine examples will have a die chip on the second bar from the top on the right hand side. I have also seen cast copies that have this so I would only buy one that is certified by a major TPG.
I hope someday you realize that dream ;-)

Fascinating coin--I like how the 8 in 1800 appears to be hand-tooled?