Posted 10/09/2022 2:39 pm
I went through the attribution of this coin and came up with BB-165, B-8, same as a coin that I posted here recently. This is a very common 1799 variety.
I did however run into an issue. I looked at the position of star 7 and the L of LIBERTY in the coin's obverse. It does not appear correctly positioned for any of the known obverses. Star 7 seems positioned too high in your coin relative to the base of L in LIBERTY. This is not possible based on the known obverse dies. My assessment is not definitive so you should do further research based on this starting point.
OP's coin:
Reference coin:
I did however run into an issue. I looked at the position of star 7 and the L of LIBERTY in the coin's obverse. It does not appear correctly positioned for any of the known obverses. Star 7 seems positioned too high in your coin relative to the base of L in LIBERTY. This is not possible based on the known obverse dies. My assessment is not definitive so you should do further research based on this starting point.
OP's coin:
Reference coin:
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
Edited by numismatic student
10/09/2022 2:43 pm
10/09/2022 2:43 pm
