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Needing Help Determining If This Old 1836 Half Cent Is Real?

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 Posted 07/20/2014  7:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Penny Guy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The positioning of the ST in STATES on the reverse does not appear to match the original proof strikes nor the first or second restrike of this date. Those letters appear to be closer together than those illustrated in Breen's Encyclopedia of Half Cents.
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 Posted 07/21/2014  04:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just got here and I see Pennyguy beat me to it. Reverse does not match the reverse of any of the three varities of 1836 (Original, first and second restrikes.) On the original and first restrike the point of leaf is below the serif of S2. On the second restrike it is near the center of the S (And the reverse is the wide border type used on the coronet harlf cents.) On the OP coin it is past the right side of the S.
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 Posted 07/21/2014  8:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Celticsoul to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Get it slabbed. Even if it's a restrike it's worth $$$. Because of the porosity it might be a spark erosion counterfeit. A new high tech way of counterfeiting coins. Actually the weak denticles scare me.
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 Posted 07/22/2014  2:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No DON'T waste your money trying to get it slabbed. As I said it isn't the original or the first or second restrike. The position of the leaves below the final S prove that. Here are images of the reverse of the original, first, and second restrikes

Original
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First restrike
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Second restrike notice the wide rim on this one used on the Braided hair Half Cents
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reverse of the OP coin
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