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Valued Member
United States
95 Posts |
I was thinking about buying this coin from a shop. Its extremely worn. You can only tell that it is a liberty cap. No date visible. Is there a way to extract the date like you can with nickles?
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Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
Why do that when you can get one with a dat for $50?
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Valued Member
 United States
95 Posts |
Well its a cool coin to have for 50$ but if I could get the date and some features to come out it would certainly be worth more than 50$ even if only 100 or 75 because it was tamperd with.
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Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
My bad I misread the title of your thread. I had half dollars on my mind. As in Capped Bust. Duhhh!  Still I know of no way to bring a date back on copper. Of course if the other details are strong enough someone may be able to identify the year by variety. Big IF methinks though. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is there a way to extract the date like you can with nickles? If you could do that with this coin....... then maybe you could "extract" some details as well !!....  Kidding..... I don't think I'd buy this coin for $50.00......but if you do, post a pic up here and let us see it ! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I've bought dateless 1794's before, but only if I am able to attribute them. First thing I would want to know is whether or not it has a lettered edge. If it is a plain edge it is a 95 or a 96. (The only way to separate those is to attribute them by die variety. A lettered edge would be a 93, 94, or 95
Next Look at LIBERTY. If it is down close to Liberty's hair it is a late 94 or a 95. Unfortunately once again you have to attribute to determine which.
If it is well away from the hair then it is a 93 or early 94. Check the size of the letters in LIBERTY. If they are about 2/3rds the size of the letters on the back it's a 93. Also check carefully to see if you can see any beads for the border instead of denticals. If the letters are the same size then it is a 94.
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Valued Member
United States
167 Posts |
I would rather buy one with a hole, than one without a date
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2443 Posts |
I don't think there's anything you can do to bring up the date because it's copper. The best way to try to find a date on it would be what Condor posted.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1130 Posts |
Personally, I would save more money and just get one with a date later.
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Moderator
 United States
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Probably an old "pocket piece".  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Posted 08/20/2008 12:26 am
