Anyone want to attribute some Busties?
Ken Barr
but with a few coin lots as they sometimes have. Many of the
coin lots, as usual, sold for Way Too Much Money to the "gee,
Martha, it's an old silvie doller ... it must be worth Lotsa
Munny!" crowd. (I would have DELIGHTEDLY sold the lot of 35
American Silver Eagles for the $1100 it realized ...).
I did manage to pick up a few lots of junk silver below melt,
and one of the "bulk lots". In addition to the usual plethora
of wheaties, dateless Buffalos, AG Barber quarters and Blue
Ikes, it actually had five Decent Coins in it, to wit ...
an 1893 Liberty nickel in XF/AU
a nicely toned 1926-S Oregon Trail commem in XF/AU
and three Bust coins ...
an 1826 Bust half in VGish (some scratches obverse)
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/kenbarr/1826half.jpg
an 1831 Bust half in VFish
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/kenbarr/1831half.jpg
and the pee-ace duh resistonce, an 1806/5 Bust quarter
in BU [Butt Ugly ...], with a very distinct overdate
despite the low grade.
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/kenbarr/1806over5quarter.jpg
I probably won't be able to drag Browning and Overton off the
shelf for a few days, so if anyone out there in r.c.c.land
is bored and wants to try the attributions themselves, feel
free to do so and post the results. Maybe we can get a nice
knockdown/dragout fight going ... ("it's clearly NOT an O-111,
you moron, the 12th star points AT the bust, not below it!")
among the cognoscenti ...
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Nick Knight
>an 1826 Bust half in VGish (some scratches obverse)
>http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/kenbarr/1826half.jpg
It's hard to get any star positions, which makes attributions usually quick.
However, based solely on the filled S and partially filled N in the reverse
legend, this is an O-112.
>an 1831 Bust half in VFish
>http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/kenbarr/1831half.jpg
Even less to go on here. Without looking at up-close I can't tell. I
thought I had a quick clue with there the reverse ribbon ends under the M in
AMERICA, but there are too many like this. If I had even ONE start
position, it could see the I in Pluribus a little more boldly ...
Nick