Braided Hair Half Cents 1840-1857 Coin Guide
Braided Hair Half Cents 1840-1857
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FLOWING HAIR SILVER DOLLARS (1794-1795)
FLOWING HAIR SILVER DOLLARS
(1794-1795) ...
Flowing Hair and Draped Bust Dollars 1794 to 1804
The Flowing Hair Dollar were minted from 1794 and 1795 and are very rare in any condition.
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Braided Hair half cents of 1840 to 1849 were made only as proofs and were used for diplomatic presentation sets or sold to well-connected collectors.
Flowing Hair Silver Half Dime
Capped Bust Half Dimes
Seated Liberty Half Dime
Seated Liberty Dime
Barber Dimes
Mercury Dime
Twenty Cent Piece
Capped Bust Large Size Quarter Dollar
Seated Liberty Quarter Dollar ...
Philip II AE 18mm. Head of Apollo right, hair bound with tainia / FILIPPOU, naked youth on horse prancing right holding long palm, symbols & monograms below.
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Hair - The area of a coin that represents hair and may be an important aspect of the grade.
Hairlines - Thin, shallow scratches on the surface of a coin, usually caused by improper cleaning, or mishandling.
Half - Synonym for half-dollar.
Braided Hair: a design type found on Half Cents and Large Cents dating from 1839 to 1857.
branch mint: any U.S. Mint other than the Philadelphia Mint (the "mother" of all mints).
brass: a yellow alloy of copper and zinc.
Flowing Hair
The design attributed to Mint engraver Robert Scot that features Miss Liberty with long, flowing hair.
Flying Eagle Cent ...
Flowing Hair - The design of Miss Liberty with long, flowing hair that is attributed to Mint engraver Robert Scot. The first coins made by the US Mint had this design.
The hair and feathers will be sharper than on coins in the lower Very Fine grades. Less wear will show on the wing tips and the shield lines will appear a bit sharper.
long hair, lyre, bow and arrow
APOLINI CONSERVAT
Apollo, bare to waist, chlamys spread behind, standing facing, head left, branch in right hand, left hand on lyre ...
Id.; hair rolled.
" Id.
AR Drachms ˝ Dr.
(Sometimes restruck on coins of Argos.) ...
"The hair of the goats is carried to Cashmeer"
"The demand for salt, is in consumption of Nipal and Bootan"
(1) Bulse ...
Braided Hair half cents: In 1840 a new motif, the Braided Hair or Coronet type, was introduced.
Flowing Hair Chain Cent, 1793
Flowing Hair Wreath Cent, 1793
Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796
Draped Bust Cent, 1796-1807
Classic Head Cent, 1808-1814
Coronet Cent, 1816-1857
Flying Eagle Cent, 1856-1858
Indian Head cent, 1859-1909 ...
Braided Hair coins achieved greater uniformity than any of the earlier large cents.
Flowing Hair with Chain Reverse - 1793
Flowing Hair with Wreath Reverse - 1793
Liberty Cap 1793-1796 ...
Style of hair on half cents and large cents from 1840 onward consisting of hair pull back into a tight bun with a braided hair cord.
branch mint
One of the various subsidiary government facilities that struck, or still strikes, coins.
Similar; hair more flowing.
Similar, but type, stag feeding instead of Pegasos
AR Attic tetradr. (Fig. 263) (Rec. gén., p. 16 f.). AR Drachm (Rein., Tr. Roy., Pl. XI. 3).
"Spaghetti Hair"
The most obvious give-away with this fake is that it's dated 1797 while featuring a Heraldic Eagle reverse, which wasn't introduced until 1798. I've seen this same type, however, dated 1799.
Die chip in hair over ear. Lapping lines from right eagle's wing.
From Stack's sale of the DiBello Collection, May 1970, Lot 1072.
1861-S $10 Rarity ...
Very Fine - the hair over the eye is worn, some of the hair over the ear is well defined, some of the eagle's feathers on the top and outside edge of the right wing will show wear.
1795 $1 Flowing Hair, Two Leaves. Struck over previously struck 1794 silver dollar by Heritage
1823/2 25c VF30 NGC. B-1, R.6. in ANA Sale by Heritage
1916 5c Doubled Die Obverse AU58 Realizes $39,000 by Heritage ...
Within short order my prediction came true when the a 1997 cent was discovered with a doubled ear lobe, upper ear and well over a dozen other areas of doubling in the hair.
Wreath of 15 leaves (3,3,3,4,2) and 4 berries (2,2) Lock of hair at extreme right near the tie-knot is undifferentiated. Leaf above is sharply defined by an incuse line around it. (Freeman 2)
2*: Toothed outer circle. L.C.WYON on truncation.
All are struck with great force giving sharp detail but none really have proper fine detail in the hair. Most copy rather rare coins. The common Emperors are represented by rare varieties.
hair is pulled back off of the brow with curls cascading down the back of her
neck. Lady Liberty's headdress is rather unique to say the least. On
the back of Lady Liberty's head is what is sometimes called a "slave cap" or ...
hair in style of Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus, red clay Photo
h) Amphora with long neck, red clay Photo
i) Bearded Hercules head left ,black clay SOLDPhoto
j) Apollo seated rt., black clay SOLDPhoto
l) Bearded male head left, ...
2d 242 (1970) in the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and "Madalyn Murray O'Hair, et al. v. W. Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of Treasury, et al" 588 F.2d 1144 (1979) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
In relation to the previous example note that the G in GEORGIUS starts well below the bottom lock of hair while on the previous example the G is much closer to the hair; also the stop after REX is much closer to the bust than in the previous example.
Rather than label a figure's hair as well or poorly rendered, one should describe precisely how it is rendered: as straight or wavy lines, ringlets or locks, small or large tufts. How are the eyes drawn? the mouth formed?
I will include a second version because of the hair net. A recent Roman find of a similar net indicated that it was made of gold wrapped around a single thread of silk.
Hair, full cheek, detail in wreath, the large V and corn on right side facing, reverse, are clearly defined but may not be sharp. Minor planchet abrasion on V, reverse, is acceptable.
Note the significant amount of wear in the hair of the first coin shown to the right. Yet the inscription and many of the lines of hair are clearly seen (especially when viewing this coin in person). Note also that this coin has few defects.
The head adorned with a fillet, composed of a double row of pearls; the hair apparently falling behind in a club-(It would seem this monarch was what in our present time would be termed a regular dandy; and if you ex amine Ruding's plates of him, ...
Called the Flowing Hair Dollar, this first US Silver Dollar appeared during 1794. The obverse is a bust of Lady Liberty with free flowing hair and the reverse has a bald eagle encompassed by a wreath.
The new coins were very much better designed than the longcross pennies and show the facing bust of the king wearing the crown with rather long wavy hair flowing from beneath it.
The high points on Liberty are the cheek, the hair above the eye and the hair above the ear. Brown and Dunn say that the highest hair is above the center of the eye, below the letter B.
If you look closely at the very back of the head there is an area of hair that is crisp and sharp, with no wear. Ask yourself how a coin with this much wear fairly evenly across the coin, has such an area with no wear on it.
The vast majority of 1851-D half eagles are weakly struck on both obverse (on the hair curls around Liberty's face) and reverse (on the shield, the legs and the claws of the eagle).
The more defined the braids and hair, however, the better the grade. The sticks and bands on the reverse bundle, however, seem to be the first parts to show wear.
"But as though the mere length of my beard were not enough, my head is dishevelled besides, and I seldom have my hair cut or my nails, while my fingers are nearly always black from using a pen.
Someone who decided to use the numbers in between might be asked why they are doing unnecessary hair splitting. Money-wise what does it matter if a coin is graded EF-40 or EF-41?
Minor features such as some of the finer hair detail, feathers, etc. will be worn. Take a roll of quarters from the bank. Most of the coins from 1976-1983 or so will likely grade VF.
Charles Barber designed one with a Liberty head with flowing hair and George Morgan designed one with a Liberty head with coiled hair. Both types have a common reverse, that is a star with the words "One Stella-400 cents.
If the rust pits are deep enough, sanding the face of the die to clean it up would possibly leave hair lines or pits if not sanded deep enough.
His silver coins show his bust on obverse, looking right, having nice and elaborate hair style, large ear rings.
sold his PCGS slabbed Proof-66 1880 Coiled Hair variety Stella at a Superior Galleries auction I cataloged. Andy had paid $900,000 for it in the heat of the market eighteen months before. Superior sold it for $400,000 plus the juice.
Highlights are seen in the hair, however, as the scanner light has reached it at an advantageous angle.
On the obverse, the highpoints to check include the King's hair, top of ear, eyebrow, nose, jaw line and neck, plus the rims and legends. Do the combing lines in the hair stand out clearly ? Has the eyebrow been flattened ?
Helena is shown both with and without the outer hair band: Julia Domna is found with both triangular and circular earrings:
Variation in hairstyle is not limited to portraits of women, however.
Logies in his recent book "The Flowing Hair Dollars of 1794, A Historical and Population Census Study," published August 2004. Provenance should also note that the coin was once donated in 1926 by Louis B.
Bare headed portrait, with curly hair and beard, facing right, with the legend M ANTONINUS AUG IMP II.
The reverse shows Providence holding globe and cornucopiae, with the legend PROV D FOR TRP (XVII or XVIII possibly XVIIII) COS III.
Looking at the reverse, you can see the silver foil of the obverse behind the left hand of Apollo, which corresponds to the hair over the ear on the obverse. I am amazed that the foil there has not bent and broken off.
The 'obverse' of the coin shows the portrait of George V, however, if you look closely you can see the numerals of a date in the top of his hair, a roo's tail leading backwards from his ear, and the forelegs of a roo in the hair behind his ear.
Two types were created; Barber's Flowing Hair design, and the rarer Coiled Hair type by Morgan. The $4.00 Stella, Latin for "star" is named for the five-pointed star on the reverse.
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