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1795 Half Dime - Variety ? Help Please

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Calling Half Dime experts

This 1795 Half Dime puzzles me. I remember seeing a similar coin once with the same roughly V-shaped depression weakness at the eye and cheek of miss Liberty. I cannot find this reference now.

Can anybody confirm (or not) this is a variety characteristic?
of an 1795 Half Dime variety?

Thanks!





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Can't help, but a nice-looking example!
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lm-3. r-5. interestingly that makes it the 3rd most common die marriage for the year (out of 9 known).

that spot isn't anything specific to the die marriage. I think that weakness is a strike issue. it looks like the shape of the eagles wing from the reverse. there were a lot of issues getting the early coins designs to strike up well.
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Thank you for the attribution, carrsCoins. Very much appreciated.

With the attribution I was able to find a further 3 examples of the 1795 Half Dime which show exactly the same feature at the eye and cheek as mine.
I have not checked if they are the same variety.

Whatever caused this "V-shaped" weakness at the eye and cheek, apparently went on during a number of strikes.


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Nice looking example.

@ CarrsCoins - I appreciate you sharing your expertise on the forum.
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