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LOT 4336
United States of America AR Half Dime or 5 Cents. Dated 1852. New Orleans mint.
Seated Liberty facing to left, holding liberty cap on stick and shield, date in exergue / HALF DIME in two lines within wreath, mintmark below. KM 62.2. Near Fine.(1.28gr, 16mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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