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Coin Details

Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: HALF DOLLARS - CAPPED BUST, LETTERED EDGE
Item Description: 50C 1817/3
Full Grade: NGC AU 55
Owner: goldsaint

Set Details

Custom Sets: This coin is not in any custom sets.
Competitive Sets: Young's Castle Collection   Score: 2302
YOUNG'S CASTLE   Score: 2302
Research: NGC Coin Explorer NGC Coin Price Guide
NGC US Coin Census for Early US Type Performance

Owner Comments:

In the United States in 1817/ In January 1817, John Reich was in his tenth year as Assistant Engraver at the Mint. The first two obverse dies he used in 1817 were overdates, the 1817/3 came first, then the 1817/4, Reich resigned in March 1817.

In the case of the 1817/4 there are seven documented coins, but at least one other is rumored to exist in Colorado having been seen by a local dealer a few years ago in Colorado Springs/ March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America.

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