1850 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. WB-2. Rarity-3. Repunched Date. AU-58 (NGC).
A highly lustrous coin for the assigned grade, both sides are brilliant apart from subtle champagne-pink peripheral iridescence. A later die state of this variety, a loupe reveals bold repunching to the lower right side of the digit 0 in the date, but repunching to the digit 5 from the earliest die state is no longer evident. The 1850 through 1852 issues make up a trio of low mintage circulation strike half dollars from the Philadelphia Mint. Circulation strike half dollar production at the Philadelphia Mint amounted to just 227,000 pieces in 1850, compared to 1,252,000 coins in 1849. The 1850 is scarce to rare in all grades, with most of the survivors either lightly circulated or in Mint State. Most examples that were removed from commercial channels by speculators were eventually melted for their precious metal content, leaving few coins for today's advanced collectors of Liberty Seated coinage.
PCGS# 6264. NGC ID: 24HG.
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