1807 Draped Bust Half Dollar. O-109a, T-2. Rarity-3. VF-20 (ANACS). OH.An attractively original example toned in a warm blend of pewter gray and pale gold. Softly struck over the lower left central obverse and in the opposing area on the reverse, a feature shared by the plate coin for the variety in Steve M. Tompkins 2015 early half dollar reference. The detail is significantly bolder toward the peripheries, where we note uniform denticulation from a well centered strike. Plenty of luster remains to tempt the viewer at direct lighting angles. The obverse die confirms the 1807 Overton-109 attribution as it is unknown in any other pairing. The reverse, however, was a workhorse die that also struck half dollars of the 1806 O-121, 1806 O-117, 1807 O-108 and 1807 O-110 varieties. This is a late die state example of the 1807 O-109 pairing, O-109a and Tompkins Die Stage 4/2.From the E. Horatio Morgan Collection.
