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ANA Signature US Coin Sale 1258 2-6 Aug 2017
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Bust Half Dollars
1815/2 50C O-101, R.2, AU50 PCGS. A solitary die pair struck the entire mintage of 47,150 half dollars in 1815, which was all the bullion-starved Mint could manage for the year. The total mintage was delivered on January 10, 1816 -- just one day before the Mint burned and no more half dollars were produced until 1817. While survivors of the issue are available in lower grades, attractive coins in About Uncirculated or finer are scarce and always in demand by collectors and specialists, who require the 1815/2 for date and variety sets.
This example is from a middle state of the dies. Multiply clashed on both sides, it was struck before the reverse die cracked through the denomination. Gunmetal-gray toning covers both sides with sea-green and rose undertones. The surfaces are minimally marked aside from the aforementioned die clashing. Light wear exists at the high points of the well-defined motifs. Housed in a previous generation green label holder. Population: 22 in 50, 67 finer (6/17).
From The Southeast Kansas Collection
HID02901242017
1815/2 50C O-101, R.2, AU50 PCGS. A solitary die pair struck the entire mintage of 47,150 half dollars in 1815, which was all the bullion-starved Mint could manage for the year. The total mintage was delivered on January 10, 1816 -- just one day before the Mint burned and no more half dollars were produced until 1817. While survivors of the issue are available in lower grades, attractive coins in About Uncirculated or finer are scarce and always in demand by collectors and specialists, who require the 1815/2 for date and variety sets.
This example is from a middle state of the dies. Multiply clashed on both sides, it was struck before the reverse die cracked through the denomination. Gunmetal-gray toning covers both sides with sea-green and rose undertones. The surfaces are minimally marked aside from the aforementioned die clashing. Light wear exists at the high points of the well-defined motifs. Housed in a previous generation green label holder. Population: 22 in 50, 67 finer (6/17).
From The Southeast Kansas Collection
HID02901242017