Welcome to CCF, CoinQ. That is one nice Half.
It's O-101, a middle die state before reaching "O-101a" status. Not uncommon, but a fascinating variety considering just how hard they pushed the die before retiring it. What you see in LIBERTY is on all the examples I've seen of O-101; I'm guessing it was recutting on the die itself.
R.1, but hardly "common" on the ground - Heritage Auctions only offers a couple a year in AU, and has only ever sold a single attributed example in Mint State. By all means, send it to PCGS - it's at least a $500-600 coin and much more if they go AU55 or higher. They may take exception to the color - PCGS is being paranoid that way - but I see no reason to believe it's not original.
It's O-101, a middle die state before reaching "O-101a" status. Not uncommon, but a fascinating variety considering just how hard they pushed the die before retiring it. What you see in LIBERTY is on all the examples I've seen of O-101; I'm guessing it was recutting on the die itself.
R.1, but hardly "common" on the ground - Heritage Auctions only offers a couple a year in AU, and has only ever sold a single attributed example in Mint State. By all means, send it to PCGS - it's at least a $500-600 coin and much more if they go AU55 or higher. They may take exception to the color - PCGS is being paranoid that way - but I see no reason to believe it's not original.
























