1830 Bust Half O- ?

This one's gonna be fun.

I don't like O-105 for it; the position of the 8 in the date is uncharacteristically low (I'm surprised Overton doesn't discuss this relatively-scarce feature). My leaning is O-118 due to the upper penetration of Line 3 in Stripe 1, but the 5 in 50 seems wrong and it lacks the lower penetration of Line 2 in Stripe 5.

I gotta go out this morning; we'll be revisiting this one.

You realize, Ben, that it's pretty much inevitable that I'm going to go completely over the edge with Busties some day, right?

When attributing Busties, the term "stripe" refers to the full set of 3 verticals in the shield; there's 6 of them in each shield. "Line" refers to one of the individual stripes which make up the set of 3. The horizontals are called "crossbars."

Sometimes these lines/stripes and crossbars are cut too long, and extend too far upwards/downwards or sideways. I dunno for sure why - maybe die touchup during its' lifetime, considering they're "negatives" on the die - but I use the term "penetration" to refer to those lines/crossbars which extend too far into the adjoining features. These are often the characteristic attribute of a given Overton variety.

I had my book out last night on this one...but I thought I'd had it narrowed down to 2 or 3, but then.........my eyes quit working right. This one would be much easier with coin in hand.