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 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.
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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
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Liberty Cap Half Cents
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Half Cents : Liberty Cap, Head Facing Left
(All are rare)
1793
Half Cents : Liberty Cap, Head Facing Right
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Only 7,781,426 Half Cents made.
Seven and three quarter million half cents where minted from 1793 until 1857 when the denomination was discounted. The major type varieties are...
Half cents were minted only sporadically after 1811. An order from the merchant Washington Cilley was responsible for reestablishing production of the coin in 1831, though that year's mintage was very small, about 2,200 pieces.
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 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.
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.
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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.
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.
Half cents were struck from 1793 until the series was discontinued in 1857. half disme The original spelling of half dime.
Or half cents? Or mint errors? Chances are good that you can find a dandy book on these and other areas of interest.
The large cents were discontinued along with the half cents in 1857. In the same year a new type showing an eagle in flight was introduced on a small, thick planchet.
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.
* 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 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, ...
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! ...
This equals about 100,000 - 115,000 half cents with a decimal value of about 500 - 575 Spanish milled dollars (circulation value at eighteen coppers to the shilling: $462.96 - $532.40) and about 292,000 - 300,000 cents with a decimal value of about 2, ...
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.
On most cents and half cents she looks a little pudgy, with a face that's almost childish. She can even look a little oafish on some dimes and half dimes.
"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.
Within that 90% majority, most prefer the coins from 1865-1945: Morgan dollar, Indianhead, Lincoln Cent, Buffalo Nickel, Large Cents and Half Cents, etc. Of all of these, the Lincoln Cent is the single most commonly assembled set in the world.
An elemental metal used in the production of certain coins, including half cents and large cents, primarily before the mid-1860s. After that, copper was replaced by bronze (see Bronze).
Braided Hair 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.
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.
A design characteristic of all U.S. small cents and nickels, half cents, and large cents minted after 1795, two-cent and three-cent pieces, and the silver 20-cent coin.
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Given in exchange were the new small cents first coined that year as a replacement for the large copper cents and half cents, which were also being retired with the Spanish pieces.
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.
Similarly, even though Canada adopted the American dollar, Canadian cents and half cents were matched in size to British half pennies and farthings (at that point bronze rather than pure copper) until after World War I.
 See also: Half cent, Half, Coin, Mint, Collector
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