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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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There are two major varieties of the 1842 O-mint Seated quarter - the small-date and the large-date. The small-date is quite scarce, while the large date is fairly common. This particular coin is clearly the much less scarce large-date variety. Nevertheless, how would you grade her? An interesting detail concerning the lage date variety is that two major 'sub-varieties' of this coin are known. Just leant this today - the 'open claws' and the 'closed-claws' reverse. Please see following reference: http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/...ionalrev.htmThis reference says the open claws is quite scarce. It looks like my coin is the open claws variety - can you guys confirm what I believe I am seeing?    |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd grade this piece VF-30, and it does appear to be the "open claws" variety.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4337 Posts |
great coin!
open claws for sure and I agree w/ VF30
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
VF-30 Another nice coin from Germamicvs!  |
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Pillar of the Community
 Germany
1852 Posts |
Thank you, gentlemen. VF30 it is.
Before I get too excited about this scarce variety of the 1842-O large date, I need to remind myself it appears to be very little known and fairly recent. There is only one on-line reference to it. Still, nice to have for sure. I picked this up a a local show for about 35 euros so I am double happy.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
That was a good price. Open claws, very close to XF40 if not quite.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1788 Posts |
You always get such nice examples Edited by Ploopy
08/12/2015 12:10 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1788 Posts |
I thought it looked xf40 but I edited my reply cause everyone already had a verdict so I assumed my opinion wasn't needed.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7375 Posts |
The other claw is open a little too.
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
1852 Posts |
Yes, I noticed that. Both claws are further apart than on the closed claws variety.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I could see it being EF-40 |
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Posted 08/12/2015 09:17 am
