How about an early half-dollar thread?? POST 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM!

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[okbustchaser]

[JRocco]

[AzLarry]

Some very nice looking halves in this thread.

 

[WinstonWare]

Nice coins everyone. I really like that crusty 1807

[JRocco]

Did someone say old crusty 07's

 

Or was that old holey 07's

[MikeKing]

Charlie, your 1910 Barber Half is far from ugly!!! Something I would surely like in my collection.

 

How about some Gobrecht

 

[Mozin]

Looks like I figured out how to store pictures on Comcast, and access them here.

 

[AzLarry]

That is a very nice looking 1837 Mike. Here is my 1839, you gotta love Gobrecht.

 

[NoTwilight]

Tom,

Oops. Just realized this is an old thread and TomB posted a better example of this coin a month ago but what the heck:

 

[NoTwilight]

 

I’m not trying to derail this thread nor making jabs at this coin, however I have begun to notice on more than one 1794 and 1795 half that there appears to be knife marks possibly consistent with someone using it for a chop block. And only this series.

 

Maybe some repetitive task of that era. Maybe cutting a chew of tobacco? Any thoughts on this?

 

The markes on Sage's 1795 look more like adjustment marks to me. It is not at all impossible that they had one bad file in the mint in 1795 that had a burr on it and the adjustment marks made a deep gouge. --jerry

[JRocco]

[MikeKing]

AZLarry, glad to see you posting here. I'd love to have a '38 like that!

[MBA101]

Here is a raw '37

 

 

Continuing to play. Raw coins are a bit easier to photo.

[JRocco]

I like this thread a whole lot

[WinstonWare]

[James_OldeTowne]

[JRocco]

Sorry for the reflection off a very scratched slab

 

[okbustchaser]

[okbustchaser]

Edited to remove some of the evidence that I don't proofread nearly well enough.

[TomB]

Isn't that last one a quarter?

[okbustchaser]

[TomB]

Nice 1794!!! That makes two of these in the last few days!!! You can never have enough 1794 half dollars.

[okbustchaser]

Not quite as early as the others I've shown but...

 

[okbustchaser]

[23Pairer]

1832 was a good year! Cool coin monster!

[TomB]

Those last three coins are smokers, folks!

[okbustchaser]

Isn't that last one a quarter?

 

Opps, I need to refile that one in my PhotoBucket folder.

 

Nice eye, Tom.

[Amanda]

 

Is this early enough?

 

-Amanda

[okbustchaser]

 

Is this early enough?

 

-Amanda

 

ABSOLUTELY!

 

And a great year, too.