Alan Weinberg wrote:
These two counterstamped bust halves were acquired together privately ( not on the bourse )
at the recent ANA.
The Martine Fayette NC ( HT 374 ) is the finest known of fewer than 10 known on bust halves and is unusual among those known as having the counterstamp on Liberty’s image ( and razor sharp) instead of in the obverse field. Almost as if Martine wanted to see if his stamp visibility would be impaired placed on the high relief detail of Liberty.
It wasn’t.
The Yankee Robinson of Civil War vintage is common on seated halves but is reportedly unique on a bust half. Ironically, upon acquiring the Yankee Robinson I discovered accompanying it an old envelope of mine from years past indicating I once owned it !
See two images taken at home by iPhone
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Liz Coggan wrote in response to the discussion of an 1837 capped bust half dime with what appears to be a minted anomaly:
I think it looks like the top of a misplaced digit, ie the 8, the way the raised area is shaped looks like part of the loop of an 8. Kind of what we see on Indian Head cents or seated coinage whereby portions of digits are struck up into say, the base of the rock, on a Seated half dollar.
—Liz
