Been working on these the strongest in the last two years. Thought you folks might want to take a gander.

[center]1806 Draped Bust / Heraldic Eagle (1801-1807), Robert Scott [/center]


[center]1818 Capped Bust / Lettered Edge (1807-1836) John Reich
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[center]1837 Capped Bust / Reeded Edge - '50 Cents' (1836-1837), Christian Gobrecht
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[center]1838 Capped Bust / Reeded Edge - 'Half Dol.' (1838), Christian Gobrecht
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[center]1849-O Seated Liberty / no motto, no arrows (1839-1853, 1856-1866), Christian Gobrecht
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[center]1853 Seated Liberty / arrows and rays (1853), Christian Gobrecht
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[center]1854-O Seated Liberty / arrows, no motto (1854-1855), Christian Gobrecht
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One of the nice things about type sets is that you can define what goes in it - problem is, they are never finished.

[center]1875 Seated Liberty / no arrows, motto (1866-1873, 1875-1891), Christian Gobrecht
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[center]1873 Seated Liberty / arrows, motto (1873-1874), Christian Gobrecht
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[center]1901 Liberty Head (1892-1915), Charles E. Barber
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[center]1945 Liberty Walking (1916-1947), A.A. Weinman
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[center]1962-D Franklin-Liberty Bell (1948-1963), John R. Sinnock
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[center]1964 Kennedy - silver (1964-current), Gilroy Roberts / Frank Gasparro
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[center]1976 Kennedy - Bicentennial (1976), Gilroy Roberts / Seth Huntington
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Of course I had to add a couple of commemoratives. First just a classic or two or three or four, then a modern or two - very addictive.

[center]1893 Columbian Exposition
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[center]1923-S Monroe-Adams
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[center]1925 Stone Mountain
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[center]1936 Rhode Island
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[center]1946 Booker T. Washington
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[center]1982-S Washington
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[center]1989-S Bicentennial of the Congress
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Superb!! Great work!!

Fantastic!!!

yummy!

Wonderful type collection
Type collecting is fun, isn't it

Bravo

Fantastic half dollar collection. It looks like you've been concentrating on it for some time.

Thanks for sharing.

Nice!

Excellent set! I love the arrow & rays half, my favorite reverse.

Dan

Nice looking collection. Halves are my favorite denomination.

Jim

Very nice collection

Now I know what I still miss......

Wonderful! With a thread as inspiring as this it is very tempting to switch to collecting by type. Needless to say the date collector within is now pulling the covers over his head and crying.

thanks much for all the kind words on these coins everybody....I definitely want to add a flowing hair type....now where are those lottery tickets??

Well until then you are welcome to at least a virtual example...



Jim

Very nice set.... But you forgot to show us a pic of your Draped Bust Small Eagle half.

*drool*

Sweet Collection, Congrats to you.

I'm never really finished with these halves. Picked this one up today and I think it makes a nice addition.

See, I told you.

One of my top 3 Commemms of all time. Very nice!

The Tejas half is probably my favorite of the old commemorative halves.

I just purchased a Texas half myself. I think they are one of the more majestic commems. My dream set of halves for the Dansco type set are:

Texas (have one)
San Deigo Pan Pacific (have one)
Oregon Trail
Gettysburg

I am halfway there. The Oregon trail is very doable, the Gettysburg is going to pinch the pocketbook quite a bit. I had considered the Missouri half as it is my home state, but I don't like the design as much.

I find myself looking at Capped bust and seated liberty halves a great deal. barber halves, for some reason, leave me cold. High grade examples are too expensive for what I find to be a truly boring coin.

Anyways, great type set!

I don't know if everyone experiences this, but I found my tastes changing about the Barbers, I started to like them a lot - especially VF+ grades.

The seateds, on the other hand, I am cooling on a bit - maybe because of all the pseudo types (arrows, motto, all combinations etc..)

Used to be blah on Franklins, but I like them a lot now too!

Texas half is beautiful. IMHO it's one of the most beautiful of the commems.

Very nice type set! I like the arrows and rays half the best. THanks for sharing...Mike

M.G. That is a wonderfull collection

I have seen some proof barbers in person that are lovely. However, they are blown away by the proof seateds that I have seen. A cameo seated is a glorious thing.

Mind you, a seated lib in AG on down is a horrifying troll of a coin. Liberty looks like a melted "neighborhood watch" symbol or some deformed phantasm skulking around the opera house hoping to startle tourists. The eagle looks like roadkill that's been flattened by a steamroller.

I like a lot of the subtypes in the Seated Lib, although I don't want to collect all of them. Just the major ones.

I want to like the franklin half, i really do. But I just can't "get" into them. So many of the strikes are so-so, and the crushed gnat of an eagle orbiting the liberty bell seems silly. The kennedy half, for having essentially the same design, i like a lot better. A majestic eagle and a striking profile of Kennedy.

As it is, I think Kennedy has been on the half for long enough. For that matter, all of the dead presidents. Bring back liberty to the coinage!

Where do I sign that petition? Enough with the dead presidents on our coins, let's phase them out in a dignified way.

Back on topic, that is a nice set of halves. I especially like the draped bust, it looks like it was chosen carefully- what a gorgeous design!