1841 Liberty Seated Half Dime. V-4. Repunched Date. MS-66 (NGC).Rich original surfaces are awash in dominant steel-gray toning. Direct lighting not only calls forth iridescent undertones of golden-apricot and olive-blue, but also allow ready appreciation of satiny mint luster. Fully struck with razor sharp detail from the rims to the centers. From a mintage of 1,150,000 coins, survivors are plentiful by early Liberty Seated half dime standards, yet conditionally rare in the finest Mint State grades, as here.<p>This variety, unknown to Valentine, was assigned the V-4 attribution after its discovery by Kamal Ahwash in 1974. The obverse exhibits repunching at the top of the digit 1 in the date that has created a small notch at the point of flag. The reverse has heavy lettering with bold clash marks at the letters ME in DIME and TES O in the legend, as well as a die crack from the lower right border into the right branch stem.PCGS# 4328. NGC ID: 232Y.NGC Census: 9; 6 finer (MS-67 finest).From the Henry Collection of Liberty Seated Half Dimes.
