Nathan Markowitz wrote:
I concur with Bob Stark and Jim Matthews as to their
observation of the absence of edge errors on dollars. I too have wondered
what the numerous design elements may represent. I wonder if anyone has
ever considered Masonic symbolism as a possible explanation? I am no
scholar in this area yet it certainly may fit from a historical perspective.
Any Masonic experts in our club?
Nathan Markowitz
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David Perkins wrote:
JRCS Early Silver
Dollar Census
This notice is a reminder that if you have not already sent
your JRCS Early Silver Dollar Census information to me it is time to do so
now. We hope to publish the next edition of the John Reich Journal in
March 2013. This issue will feature the Early Dollar Census.
You can send me your census via e-mail at wdperki (at) attglobal.net .
If you would like to mail it to me, you can send to the JRCS Post Office Box
address (inside the front cover of the Journal), or e-mail me and I will give
you my address to mail the census to me. Thanks.
Regards,
W. David Perkins
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Dave Johnson wrote:
Thank you for the newsletter--I have enjoyed it for a long
time. In response to Tom Little's question about the 1829 H10C, it
appears to be an LM 15.1, an R4 variety. A very nice half dime!
Dave Johnson
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Richard Meaney offers a slightly different opinion on Tom
Little's half dime:
I agree with Dave Johnson that the 1829 half dime is of the
LM-15 die marriage. However, it appears
to me that the N in UNITED has a die chip and that there is also a small die
chip in the M of AMERICA. These factors
would make it a later remarriage: 1829
LM-15.2. Some sharp-eyed collectors bid
the coin to twice "book price" because of the scarcity of the die
marriage (as Dave Johnson pointed out: R-4)
and the scarcity of the remarriage in higher grade. The latest JRCS census shows an AU-58 as
finest reported for this remarriage. The
Logan-McCloskey text states a brilliant uncirculated exampled was sold at
Kagin's in 1979, so this would not likely be "finest known" but it
sure is up there in condition census.
That coin would have been an upgrade for my collection too, but I did
not see it before it ended. Even if I
had, I am sure I would not have won it above its actual closing price.
