PRICE LIST: COUNTERFEIT BUST HALF DOLLARS

I am pleased to provide you with my 1st ever fixed pricelist (FPL) sale with highlights from none other than the long-time collector of counterfeit Capped Bust half dollars (CBH), Larry Schmidt. Larry assembled his advanced collection of more than 100 die struck counterfeit CBH varieties over several decades. For this collection subject matter, this is a level of completion and achievement that fewer than 10 numismatists (per my estimate) have ever ascended to, notably due to how rare or scarce many of these varieties are.

For many years, Larry managed the website http://cccbhcc.com/, growing the content and uniting collectors with this shared interest following Keith Davignon's second edition of Contemporary Counterfeit Capped Bust Half Dollars in 2010. Many of Larry's pieces have been off the market for decades offering a rare opportunity to acquire some seldom available pieces. Included in this FPL are 98 lots including about 80 of Larry's CBH varieties (with some duplicates), other type, and 3 counterfeit coin detector devices.

To my knowledge, Larry's collection and selection of counterfeit CBHs in this sale constitutes the largest single offering of its kind to come to market in approximately a decade. Other comparably large and diverse collections have sold over this time period, such as from Harvey Bastacky, but Larry's offering here edges those out. As such, it must be mentioned that these sale opportunities are few and far between, and may only come to market every 5 to 10 years.

I had the privilege of studying these pieces for more than a month in order to adequately study, document, photo graph, describe, and catalog these pieces to the maximum level of detail I could provide. The pieces offered here provided us with new information about this subject that have never been documented before, including new planchet alloy groups for a given obverse-reverse (O-R) die marriage (DM), the first time a lettered edge die marriage could be attributed to O-R DMs, newly attributed lettered edge DMs, and the first time a reeded edge was documented for an O-R DM that should not have a reeded edge! This illustrates that there is much more to learn about these counterfeit coins—and I anticipated this type of new information being documented for years after my Bad Metal publication.

 

This sale opens new opportunities for the current collector base to add and cherish these rare and scarce varieties to their collections, upgrade varieties, and even add unusual pieces to their collections, such as some double struck examples!

For more information, or to order, see:
https://www.badmetalcoin.com/shop
FIXED PRICE LIST #1 https://www.badmetalcoin.com/_files/ugd/e42934_088e8c8dfa024683a778b977cf1bc0b3.pdf

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
NEW BOOK: BAD METAL (https://www.coinbooks.org/v22/esylum_v22n31a07.html)
NEW BOOK: BAD METAL: SILVER 3 TO 25 CENTS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/esylum_v25n32a06.html)
NEW BOOK: BAD METAL: SILVER 50C TO $1 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n21a04.html)

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