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SPECIFICATIONS:
Designer: Robert Scot
Diameter: 23.5 millimeters
Metal content:
Copper - 100%
Weight: 104 grains (6.74 grams)
Edge: Lettered ("TWO HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR")
Mintmark: None (all 1794 Half Cents were struck at the Philadelphia Mint)
Chain Design (15 links)
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¬ Denomination
¬ Wreath Design
¬ Denomination
¬ Reeds
Liberty Cap Right Half Cent
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FACTS:
Few Americans living away from the Atlantic seaboard, however, actually handled many of these "Little Half Sisters," as copper coinage student Dr. Warren A. Lapp once nicknamed the denomination.
Although half cents were issued for more than 60 years, they remained America's unwanted coins. They proved to be of little use, circulated grudgingly if at all, and were often kept in dead storage at the Mint waiting for infrequent orders from the infant nation's banks. Production-sometimes for several years-was often interrupted by shortages of copper and lack of demand.
Pole and Liberty Cap ®
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LIBERTY CAP, RIGHT FACING, HALF CENT (1794-1797)
Cherry Picker's List:
1794
1795 Plain Edge, No Pole
1795 PE Punctuated Date
1795 Lettered Edge
1795 LE Punctuated Date
1796 With Pole
1796 No Pole
1797 Lettered Edge
1797 Centered Head
1797 Gripped Edge
1797 1 above 1
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Date/Mint Mark
|
Mintage
|
Grade
|
Value
|
1794
|
81,600
|
AG3
|
$350
|
1795 Lettered edge, pole
|
139,690
|
AG3
|
$400
|
1795 Plain edge, pole punctuated date
|
Included above
|
AG3
|
$350
|
1795 Plain edge, no pole
|
Included above
|
AG3
|
$300
|
1795 Lettered edge, pole, punctuated date
|
Included above
|
AG3
|
$350
|
1796 With Pole
|
1,390
|
AG3
|
$10,000
|
1796 No pole
|
Included above
|
AG3
|
$12,000
|
1797 Plain Edge
|
127,840
|
AG3
|
$350
|
1797 Plain edge, low head
|
Included above
|
AG3
|
$*********
|
1797 Plain edge, 1 above 1
|
Included above
|
AG3
|
$300
|
1797 Lettered edge
|
Included above
|
AG3
|
$750
|
1797 Gripped edge
|
Included above
|
AG3
|
$9,000
|
The listed values are for the grade AG3, except the proofs, because Half Cents are commonly found in this condition. Coins that are damaged, scratched or cleaned in any way will be less then values listed in price guides. Also, the below values are just examples of what the date has sold for, and not what a dealer would pay for the same date, mint or grade.