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Welcome to my first foray into the grading thread, and my first attempt at pictures you can grade with ! For your viewing pleasure - 1834 Bust Half dollar. Has some light hairlines from cleaning on the obverse, the reverse does not seem to have any cleaning hairlines. The color is a nice silver/blue on most of obverse and reverse is a bit deeper blue.I took a close -up of the date and highlighted two areas that would not photo well- not sure what is going on there. Also , on the edge of the coin it reads "Fifty cents or ALF a dollar"...no H ? My First Bust half, I like it alot. Compared to some of the others I have scrutinized lately , it has a decently original look-to me  What say you ?    Edited by InfiniteInterest
12/01/2007 6:29 pm
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VF details, net F for the cleaning. It looks pretty nice, certainly better than 90% of the cleaned ebay junk out there. I'll attribute it later when I get my book from the other room, since I'm too lazy to get up now. |
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I wonder if we could think of it as close to XF, net VF, considering a pretty flat obverse strike. The reverse is nice. I'm tentatively calling it O-117, Small Date, Small Letters, but I'm a real rookie with these so I'm ready to listen to more experienced voices.
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This is a great coin for a grading exercise. I think Dave's got a good eye, here. The clasp detail (obverse) and feather detail (reverse) really argue for XF, while the hair (obverse) really looks like F-VF. The mint turned out a less consistent product during the 1800's. I'd put it at a VF-35 details. Nice coin. I'd find a home for it in my collection given the chance. |
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I don't know enough to attribute it, & am not going to comment on the cleaning other than to say a lot of these have been. I think the reverse just squeaks into the XF40 range, lots of nice detail there. The obverse seems weaker than the reverse, could be strike related, but I'd go VF.
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Thanks for the comments and grade estimations.He had the coin graded VF/XF, I bought the coin for VF money, I am not real familiar with the series but I could see the weak obv strike and the reverse is just so very nice . It was the only one in the case I could not tell was cleaned without a loupe.
I am also still wondering about the edge lettering. The edge reads " Fifty cents or alf a dollar " there is no "H" in Half- is this normal ? And the picture is highlighted at the 8 in the date, appears to be raised there just a bit in the shape of the highlights- anything there ?
Hunter, if you are interested, we can talk about adding that coin to your collection- shoot me an email.
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Net VF-35 I would say and agree the reverse is an XF. A nice bustie for sure!
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Very nice coin! I see this coin as having EF40 details, cleaned. I agree witht the attribution of O-117. This variety has a Rarity rating of 2. Congratulations on a nice purchase! |
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