My coin has no drapery with the O mintmark under the claw. which seemingly should be a variety. That's an assumption since Coinfacts shows the O mintmark under the arrow's tail feather as the 'regular strike' coin. Plus, they do not even show my ND coin as an example of a variety having the O mintmark way to the left under the claw.
https://www.PCGS.com/coinfacts/coin...drapery/5393 PCGS CoinFacts shows the O being directly under the arrow's tail feather but does not list it as a variety. In large letters above the primary photo it reads,
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1840-O 25C No Drapery (Regular Strike)
but in the section below where you click to see the varieties under,
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Show Related Coins and Varieties (1)
it states only one variety which appears to be the same as a 'Regular Strike',
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Major Varieties 1840-O 25C No Drapery
Show Related Coins and Varieties (1)
Can a 'variety' be the same as a 'regular strike' which
PCGS seems to imply?
On the other hand
NGC verbiage seems to imply that the large O under the arrow tailfeather of a 1840-O 25C "with" drapery is scarce. But
NGC fails to make clear that an 1840-O 25C 'without' drapery having the O under the claw as common?
Plus both the drapery and non-drapery conditions are written about on
NGC but their picture does not say whether it is from the drapery or non-drapery state.
The apparent lack of correlation between the two TPGs has me baffled. The bottom line question is where can I find a reputable 3rd party site to describe more succinctly the rarer mintmark location for an 1840-O ND (no drapery) 25C?
Posted 12/29/2021 12:03 pm
