Am I Being Ripped Off? 1832 Capped Bust Half Dollar

You came to the right place. I am not a pro on this coin, but
I will tell you that the place to ask about this particular coin
is in the "US Classic Coins" section of the forums. That series
of coins is fairly pricy, so you were probably lowballed, but
again, I don't know this series very well, and there might be
some years that are referred to as "type coins", which are common.

Take the pics head on, no tilt or angle, and rotate them to orient
them properly, and it will help a great deal. Post the same question
in the Classic US forum, and title the thread "1832 Capped Bust",
and you will have Bust experts crawling out of the woodwork to take
a look at your coin. As for the stealer, er, dealer, get some more
opinions before you sell your family keepsake. Good luck!

Im not an expert at grading but if its this coin http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/c...de2=pricesms from the picture I would say you probably got low balled

There are 23 varieties of the coin. I think yours is a small letters variety by looking at PCGS Coin Facts website. I am no expert on these but I think that $200 was a fair offer unless it is a good variety.

Stop. Right now. Do not sell this coin until we talk about it more.

I see a small dash to the left of the 1 in the date. I need to know if that little dash is raised from the surface of the coin, or depressed into it. Furthermore, if it is at all possible, we need you to take different images of the coin, from as close to vertical above it as you can possibly get.

As dumprat mentioned, there are 23 known varieties of the 1832 Bust Half. Only one of them is rare, and that one is vanishingly rare. The dash next to the 1 is the hallmark of that variety.

Determining the variety of a Bust Half involves observing the relationships between the stars and denticles, and between certain letters and arrows on the reverse. That is why we need flat images of the coin, so as to see those relationships clearly. The angled images you present aren't up to doing that. What I see in those pictures doesn't match what I know about the variety, but the angle of the images can be the reason.

If this coin is actually O-123, you have something pretty special. If it isn't - and I tell you plainly that's the more likely conclusion, because O-112 also has that feature - $200 is a nice price for you to sell it at.

But don't until we've talked more. We need to know.

with ddave and cipster. Please try to put up better pics.

http://imgbox.com/g/xcWqtxH5o4

I created a gallery of several pics. Thanks for everyone help. Please forgive quality. I'm doing all of this from my phone.

I think this is definitely what is called a "dash date". The location of the dash is exactly where it should be for this obverse. However, the relation of the I to the T on the reverse, along with other markers, determine this to be an O-112 variety, which has a rarity rating of 2 (500-1000 known).

The condition is difficult to determine from the images provided, and I am not comfortable guessing at the grade. I would need clearer obverse and reverse pictures to determine this and also it would need to be pictured outside of the mylar holder.

After looking at the additional pictures I feel more confident about what I said earlier today -




I see that SusanLynn9 agrees and is an expert. The O-112 and the more valuable O-123 have the same obverse die but different reverse dies.

I can't guess the grade based on the pictures but since you have the coin in hand maybe looking at some graded examples will help you.

Here's a link to a respected coin grading company PCGS and their examples of grade - I'd suggest you start looking at the pictures starting at XF40 and go up or down numerically from there.
http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Capped50/Grades

Also, here are a couple of examples currently for sale on ebay for comparison of grade and typical asking price.

I chose two coins that were graded professionally - an XF40 and an AU55. In my opinion your coin is XF40 or better but I don't think it qualifies for AU55. Others on this forum are better at grading than I. You can look at the pictures and compare to your coin.

Here's an XF40 example on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1832-BUST-H...em43ae592230

Here's an AU55 example on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1832-BUST-H...em1e6e5e60cf