Half Cent Values
Half cent values start at thirty dollars each for a well worn coin. Not a bad minimum value for an old coin.
Find a "better date" in you box, for example an 1802, 1811 or 1831 and your half cent values increase dramatically.
Half Cents
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No Half Cents were issued in 1799.
The Draped Bust design appeared from 1800 to 1808, but no Half Cents were struck in 1801. The rarest date of this design type is the 1802, all of which were struck on cut-down Large Cents.
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Half cents were minted only sporadically after 1811. An order from Jonathan Elliott & Sons of Baltimore, Maryland was responsible for reestablishing production of the coin in 1825, but by the end of 1829, over 800, ...
Half Cents dated 1800 were the first to bear Scot's Draped Bust design. This amply proportioned Liberty was based on a drawing by the great artist Gilbert Stuart and portrayed a ranking Philadelphia society leader and beauty, Mrs. William Bingham.
The Half Cent Series and its varieties are covered by two books, the latest is Breen's ("B numbers") and earlier the standard reference was Cohen (C numbers). Also many key varieties are in Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins.
The Half Cent was authorized to be minted April 2, 1792. Production of the half cent in the United States was from 1793-1857.
1804 Half Cents were struck in 5 Varieties:
-Plain 4, Stems at Wreath
-Plain 4, No Stems at Wreat
-Crosslet 4, Stems at Wreath
-Crosslet 4, No Stems at Wreath
- Spiked Chin ...
half cent The lowest-value coin denomination ever issued by the United States, representing one-two hundredth of a dollar. Half cents were struck from 1793 until the series was discontinued in 1857.
Half cent - The lowest-value coin denomination ever issued by the US Mint, representing 1/200th of a dollar. Half cents were struck from 1793 until 1857.
Half cent - a U. S. copper coin of that value, issued from 1793 to 1857
Half dime - a U. S. silver five-cent coin, issued from 1794 to 1873
Half eagle - a U. S. $5 gold coin, issued from 1795 to 1929 ...
Half Cent - A U.S. coin with a face value of 1/200th of a dollar first minted in 1793 and last minted in 1857.
Half Dime - A U.S. coin with a face value of 5 cents issued with dates between 1794 and 1873; originally called a half disme. ...
half cent
A U.S. copper coin minted from 1793 through 1857 (1/200th of a dollar).
half dime
A U.S. silver coin minted from 1794 through 1873 (five cents).
Half Cent: the U.S. copper coins struck from 1793 to 1857 worth one-half of one Cent..
Half Dime: the U.S. silver coins struck from 1794 to 1873 worth five Cents..
1793 HALF CENT
LIBERTY WITH CAP BUST LEFT
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Half cents of the 19th century: No half cents were struck bearing the dates 1798 and 1799. In 1800 a new motif, the Draped Bust style, made its appearance and was continued through the year 1808. Particularly scarce is the 1802 half cent.
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Half Cents - all coined at Philadelphia with no mint mark.
Large Cents - all coined at Philadelphia with no mint mark.
Flying Eagle Cents - all coined at Philadelphia with no mint mark.
Half cent
Anne Bingham was no idle woman of leisure. She conducted social salons for leaders of the newly born United States and openly expressed her own views about matters of public interest.
Half cent
Two-cent piece
Three-cent piece (silver and nickel varieties)
Half dime
Twenty-cent piece
Gold one dollar coin
Two-and-one-half dollar coin or "quarter-eagle"
Three-dollar coin
Four-dollar coin or "Stella" (not circulated) ...
Half Cent
A coin produced in the United States from 1793-1857, having a face value of 1/200th dollar.
Half Dime ...
The half cent was struck from 1793 to 1857. Its primary purpose was to allow American money based on tenths to be exchanged for Spanish and Mexican coins that were divided by eighths. The US quarter was equal to the Spanish 2 reales ("ray-ah-less").
The half cent had the longest run of these particular coins, from 1793 to 1857, though it skipped a number of years because of a lack of demand or a shortage of copper, including the years 1812 through 1824 and 1836 through 1848.
The half cent was the lowest value ever issued by the United States. Even in those days of low prices, a half-cent piece was considered a nuisance; its coinage declined and it was discontinued altogether in 1857.
The half cent restrike of 1811 and the large cent restrikes of 1823 and "1804" come from this batch. They deceived few collectors but turned a profit anyway.
1787 HALF CENT
estimated total mintage 61,500-79,500 from six obverse dies (Ryder 1-6) and four reverse dies (Ryder A-D) all made by Callender and found in 9 combinations.
1787 CENT ...
Bronze half centenionalis, about uncirculated, 1.60g, 17.6mm, 0o, uncertain possibly unofficial mint, 355 - c. 361 A.D.
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Slang for half cents, large cents, and pre-Federal copper issues.
copy
Any reproduction, fraudulent or otherwise, of a coin.
Although copper half cents and cents were coined as early as 1793, and silver coinage (half dollars and dollars) followed in 1794, it was not until 1795 that gold coins made their debut.
Style of hair on half cents and large cents from 1840 onward consisting of hair pull back into a tight bun with a braided hair cord.
branch mint
One of the various subsidiary government facilities that struck, or still strikes, coins.
Constantius II, AE Half Centenionalis, 348-350, Second Group, Antioch, Officina 7
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Pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right
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Phoenix, radiate, standing right on globe
* in right field
ANZ in exergue ...
For the next three and a half centuries, Greek ideals about constitutional government, private property, free scientific enquiry, rationalism, and separation between political and religious authority would permeate lands from Italy to India, ...
The next year, the half cent was changed to this design. This head was also copied by William Kneass for the quarter eagle and half eagle designs first struck in 1834. cleaned A term applied to a coin whose original surface has been removed.
Die variety - Half Cents, 1793-1857. CC Carson City (Nevada). Mintmark, 1870-93, gold and silver coins only. CMM# (CMM1-CMM13?) Cohen, Munson, Munde number (1971). Die variety - Half Cents, 1793-1857.
coppers - nick name for older copper coins, particularly the large cents, and half cents. copy - refers to a reproduction of a coin or paper note. Some copies may be illegal.
The obverse of the minor coins (the half centavo and one centavo, both coined in bronze, and the copper-nickel five centavos) featured the semi-nude figure of an adolescent native, seated at an anvil and holding a hammer in his right hand.
hairlines Light scratches in the surface of a coin half cent A U.S. coin with a face value of 1/200th of a dollar first minted in 1793 and last minted in 1857 half dime A U.S.
* Liberty Cap Left-Facing Half Cents 1793 Regular Strikes--Bent Cap, Bunch Leaves, may be worth as much as $125,000 MS-65
* Liberty Cap Right-Facing Half Cents 1794-1797 Regular Strikes--1797 Lettered Edge, may be worth $11,000 Very Fine ...
The horrid inflation of the following half century saw the coins debased to a fraction of their earlier values . In 294 AD, an attempt to stabilize the situation was made by Diocletian.
The first Pittman sale was held in October 1997 and it featured 1264 lots of coins including half cents, large cents, small cents, minor coins, nickels, half dimes, dimes, gold dollars, half eagles, double eagles, ...
" Learned men in all parts of the world are ardent collectors, and the aristocratic classes of Europe prior to just this past half century probably held the record for the most scientific and far reaching pursuit of the possibilities of numismatic ...
Mint began striking half cents and cents. In 1794, half dimes, half dollars and dollar coins were introduced. In 1795, the U.S Mint began to strike $5 and $10 gold coins. But the U.S. ten-cent coin or 'dime' did not appear until 1796! ...
Other than United States Large Cents and Half Cents, which are pure copper, all U.S. coins have been alloyed. Copper, at a 1-to-9 ratio, is the usual alloy for gold and silver. There are several reasons for not using metals in their pure state.
Julian II, as caesar, AD , AE half Centenionalis. Julian bust rt./Soldier spears fallen barbarian horseman, Siscia mint.
"There are some exceptions in the early years among half cents and large cents.
Cohen variety - A die variety for half cents, denoted as C-1, C-2a, etc.
Coin - Metal formed into a disk of standardized weight and stamped with a standard design to enable it to circulate as money authorized by a government body.
865, while the US half cent was still in use, or $4.87 thereafter. The dollar in pounds would be 4 shillings 1 1/4d (i.e. a penny and farthing -- sometimes called a "bicycle," after the 19th century bicycles that had one large and one small wheel).
By Marc Hudgeons (et al), the Blackbook covers every US Coin ever minted including colonial tokens, farthings, half cents, and gold pieces. All types evaluated, graded, and priced.
Walter Breen (September 5, 1930(or 1928?) - April 28, 1993) was a numismatist best known in coin collecting circles for writing Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins and U. S. Half Cents Encyclopedia.
coppers - The nickname used for older copper coins, large cents, and half cents.
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Large cents (pennies) are similar in size to quarters, and half cents are a little greater in diameter than five cent nickel coins are now. ...
Bit - Spanish pieces of eight were physically cut into eight pieces with each piece as one bit. The quarter dollar is sometimes referred to as two bits, so that an eighth of a dollar would be one bit or 12 and one-half cents.
would never share power with his younger brother as equals. Geta had no intention of taking the role of junior partner. He would not voluntarily take a lesser role to his brother as Lucius Verus did with his brother Marcus Aurelius a half century ...
of the gold and silver coins, there shall be the figure or representation of an eagle, with the inscription of United States of American, and a designation of the value of the coin; but on the reverse of the dime and half dime, cent and half cent, ...
the Persian empire shortly after Alexander's death; for, from the edicts of Asoka (circ. B.C. 250), we know that there were Ionian Greeks (Yonas = Ιωνες) among the rulers of Northern India during the previous half century ...
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