I promised I'd review the things that charge me up when it comes to choosing a coin and saying YES!, for the next ten coins I purchased. Here's #5, sorry, I'm falling behind.

I'm going to cut and paste from my registry set entry and then make a summary commentary:

1810 50C Overton 102 R.2

The coins I'm most recently acquiring I've searched high and low for. The optimal 1810 would be one that is well struck. This one is characteristically poorly struck centrally, in fact, the left wing of the eagle looks like it's dissolving away.

But the coin is exceptionally beautiful. Gorgeous toning, the hair curls are just beautiful, if not impeccably void of any wear. The fields are somewhat proof-like obviously from polished dies, yet retain cartwheel luster which shimmers through the almost metallic blue peripheral toning. I would say that it was hard to find actual wear on this coin which is so poorly struck, and I suspect it could be argued whether or not there is rub on the cap and perhaps the lower drapery, but I can attest to the fact that I cannot find evidence of rub on the reverse. I am uncertain if this coin has ever seen circulation, but it's fields are not entirely clean under a glass, though, that doesn't mean it entered actual circulation i.e., used in commerce.

*******Commentary:

1. The overall 'look' of this coin is simply gorgeous

2. It appears quite naturally toned and if dipped in the past, certainly had quite a bit of time to retone. And very nicely at that.

3. The hair details on Busties always do it for me. This one is meticulously clean. The light, when you tilt this coin, just runs through the hair. I love that effect.

4. The strike is lousy. what can you do. The left (your left) eagle's wing is literally dissolving into the background. I think, when you're collecting a whole series, it allows for you to make exceptions like this more often than not. I took advantage of that fact. The coin is stunning, to hell with the eagle's wing. Big deal.

5. This is a difficult date to find in DECENT shape.

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6. I can see this coin in an AU58-MS62 holder. I doubt that it's ever seen real circulation, but can understand the AU58 designation. But grade is not what really counts in this series, as I've said before, so I think I should remove point 6 as one that I used to consider when purchasing this coin.

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