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***Auction Highlight*** 1829/7 O-101 Capped Bust Half Dollar 50c Graded Select+ Unc By USCG (fc)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:1,343.75 - 5,375.00 USD
***Auction Highlight*** 1829/7 O-101 Capped Bust Half Dollar 50c Graded Select+ Unc By USCG (fc)
***Auction Highlight*** 1829/7 O-101 Capped Bust Half Dollar 50c Graded Select+ Unc By USCG. Up for Auction is a spectacular and Flashy 1829/7 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Overton 101 Variety. It is tied for the 6th finest at PCGS. The example at hand has flashy spectacular luster and eye appeal that won’t quit. The overdate is easily seen at this grade, showing repunching on all four date digits, mostly to the north on 18, to the south on 29. This variety would be more correctly described as 1829/1827. The repunching on the 2 is as bold or bolder than that on the 9. Central detail is good on both sides. While researching the coin I came across an excerpt from an article by Benjamin Wails of Natchez, Mississippi, written regarding his visit to the Philadelphia Mint on December 28, 1829, I thought you might enjoy his observations : “On Christmas Day 1829, after a riverboat trip on the Mississippi and Ohio from Natchez to Wheeling, an overland ride to Baltimore, and another leg by water from there, B.L.C. Wails and his wife arrived in Philadelphia for some sightseeing. A few days later, after passing some time at Philadelphia’s market (“the beef is unrivaled in the world”), Wails spent most of his morning on December 28th visiting the United States Mint. Like Prince Bernhard in 1826, Wails documented his visit, jotting down an extraordinarily detailed commentary in his personal diary. First published in 1954, excerpts from Wails’ journal were incorporated into Don Taxay’s The U.S. Mint and Coinage in 1966, but the original source remains too little known by numismatists. Wails witnessed the same processes as Bernhard: rolling ingots into stock, punching planchets from the stock with “a bit (or gouge, or punch) driven by a powerful screw,” weighing, and coining. The screw press, in Wails’ estimation, was “a very powerful, ingenious, simple (though very perfect) piece of machinery.” It consists (like the cutting machine) of a very powerful upright screw, to the top of which is affixed a heavy & strong lever worked with great apparent ease by one man at each end, & by which the screw is made to make about one fourth of a revolution & returning instantly to its former position. At the lower end of the screw is affixed the die which gives the impression on the upper side, & immediately under it is the die containing the impression for the reverse of the coin ... the stamped coin is struck out of its place & conveyed into a box by a spout (or conductor) as the screw rises, and another unstamped coin takes it place, & the screw comes down again.” Trends for this superb coin are ms63 $5,000 ms64 $6,500 A Corey's Pick, Bid to Win, Don't let it get Away, you might not find its equal Coin. I give this coin my highest recommendation