Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

[Don in SJ]

Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

This morning I went to a site that I pounded for a couple years and was a good one for anything from King George's to Early Year Large Cents.

The site is rather large for a wooded homestead and today I concentrated on front side of the property and was rewarded with my first silver from the site. I was not sure it was a coin, it was almost a warbler type of tone on the detector and it was shallow. I expected perhaps button but sure did not expect to see the little round silver piece appear.

Any Capped Bust coin is a great find and I really enjoyed that this was a nice one and a Half Dime to boot! The 1832 was not one of the higher mintage years so another bit of satisfaction. I noticed on Coinfacts.com site that there are fourteen varieties of the 1832, ranging from Very Common to Extremely Rare. I have no idea which variety I have but will pursue trying to find out.

After I found the Half Dime I got another good diggable reading nearby, but the good turned to big iron reading real quick, and I was rewarded with the biggest log splitter (over 9 inches in length) I have found to date.

So I was going to title the post Big Iron and Small Silver, but went with the coin only.

Don

 

[Don in SJ]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Don,

Congrats on a super find!!!!!!!!

I know you have found many, many nice coins so I have a question that you can answer. What is the approximate percentage between copper and silver coins on your colonial sites?

Capped Bust is on the top of my list to find.

Regards,
Jon Dickinson.
www.prehistoricartifacts.com

That question was brought up recently by a fellow from Virginia who happens to wonder why he finds so little Colonial/early Federal Coppers, compared to Silver, which is mostly the Spanish silver.
He has his (Virigina) at 10% coppers to 90% silver for colonials. Also his friend has about the same percentage.
But here in NJ and Eastern Pa, it is just the opposite. About 88-90% Coppers over Silver.
This is mostly for Colonial era coins and early federal up to before Seated Liberty types came out.

Don

 

[Don in SJ]

Variety Identified

I sent the photo of the coin to a known coin collector to find out which variety of the 14 known and here is his reply:

Hello Don,

Your half dime is an LM-7 also known as a V-9. It has Obverse 1 for the year in its third and final use, and reverse S in its only use for this year. (Rev S would be used again for the first variety of 1833.) I appears to be a middle die state of LM-7 since I see that die chipping has filled the top of the first S of STATES, but I don't see the die cracks that develop through the first six stars on the left side of the obverse. (first through the inside points of S1 - S6, then from the rim to S5, hen from the rim to S2, then from S1 to the bust to the 1 and finally to the rim below the 1.) This variety is a fairly common R-2 about 601 to 1000 pieces estimates to exist.

I hope that was the information you were looking for.

Michael S

I did question him on if the die crack sequence is as it says in the book, why then is mine only starting to crack at the rim to the 1 in 1832. He thought perhaps the die crack sequenceing could be in error in the book or my cracks are very fine and only the crack near the 1 is currently showing....
(Must remember these coins are tiny, my photo is a rather large blowup)
Don

 

[Roadquest]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Beautiful coin..The bust coins are always kool

 

[Diggincoinz]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Wow, that's a beauty!

 

[Gilligan]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Awesome find Don!!

 

[dgaughan]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

wow don she's a real beauty

 

[Green1]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

awesome !! totally awesome !!

 

[CarolinaDigs]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Don YOU are a great treasure hunter, writer and photographer Love the coin and log splitter

 

[Vrent]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

that is one sweet coin Congrats

HH Vrent

 

[jimmatt_43]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Wow,big congrats Don.One of perhaps a thousand,I say that is a rare find indeed.
Jim

 

[Goldiver]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Wow Don, that is a beauty! Extremely rare to find in that condition! A Bust coin will put a smile on your face every time.

Steve

 

[ugotit22]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Amazing coin. thats what this is all about

 

[Tim (PA)]

Re: Beautiful Little "Capped Bust"

Wow! Beautiful half dime!