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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

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 ®

Images courtesy of Hanks and Associates
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.