1806 O-129 R8 Draped Bust Half Dollar
Obverse: 13
Reverse: L (probably used after O-116 since it has the die crack)
Reverse: L (probably used after O-116 since it has the die crack)
Pics Needed! 2 known examples! Discovered Oct 2005.
Variety Attribution: Obverse-Date is 8 mm. and 1 touches curl. Star 1 is 3 mm. from curl and has a tine on the bottom of lower point toward rim. Star 7 and L in LIBERTY nearly touch.
Reverse-5 berries and the lowest one has no stem and is centered under last A in AMERICA. The upper two berries have heavy stems joined at base. A star point is joined to tip of beak. Right base of F missing. Point of leaf under I just left of center. A die crack crosses lower tip of eagle's tail feathers and circles to left joining top of UNITED, then above S and through upper part of TATE in STATES.
1806 Leaman-Gunnet Emission Sequence Number for O-129: 20 (estimated, but not included overall)
Top five condition census coins from last 10 years of auction and sale records :
08/10 Downey (Hatfield-Two Rarities) VG06 det (holed, old scrapes)