1792 1C Birch Cent J-6
1792 10C Disme J-9

1792 H10C J-8, BN (Regular Strike)

Series: Patterns - MS

PCGS #:
11021
Designer:
Unknown
Edge:
Plain
Diameter:
N/A
Weight:
N/A
Mintage:
N/A
Mint:
Philadelphia
Metal:
Copper
Auction Record:
$824,850 • AU55 • 01-07-2015 • Heritage Auctions
Major Varieties
  • 1792 H10C J-8, BN

Condition Census What Is This?

Pos Grade Image Pedigree and History
1 XF45 estimated grade

Joseph J. Mickley Collection - Mason & Co. 11/1878:348, $9 - Lorin G. Parmelee Collection - New York Coin & Stamp 6/1890:4, $13 - Charles Morris Collection - S.H. & H. Chapman 4/1905:360, $12 - Waldo C. Newcomer Collection - Major Lenox Lohr Collection - Empire Coin Fixed Price List c. 1961, offered at $9,750 - Hazen B. Hinman Collection - Paramount 4/1965:51, $2,800 - John L. Roper Collection - Stack's 12/1983:428, $20,900 - Donald Groves Partrick Collection - Heritage 1/2015:5506, $824,850
#1 XF45 estimated grade

Joseph J. Mickley Collection - Mason & Co. 11/1878:348, $9 - Lorin G. Parmelee Collection - New York Coin & Stamp 6/1890:4, $13 - Charles Morris Collection - S.H. & H. Chapman 4/1905:360, $12 - Waldo C. Newcomer Collection - Major Lenox Lohr Collection - Empire Coin Fixed Price List c. 1961, offered at $9,750 - Hazen B. Hinman Collection - Paramount 4/1965:51, $2,800 - John L. Roper Collection - Stack's 12/1983:428, $20,900 - Donald Groves Partrick Collection - Heritage 1/2015:5506, $824,850
David Hall:

This is the unique copper striking of the famous 1792 silver half disme.

P. Scott Rubin: The 1792 Plain Edge Copper Half Disme (Judd-8) is a known by the unique specimen that has been graded anywhere from “strictly Uncirculated” to Very Fine. The first known appearance of this coin was in the Mason Sale of November 1878, which contained coins from the Joseph J. Mickley Collection.

Currently numismatists consider the 1792 Silver Half Disme a regular issue U.S. Coin and as such the first coin issued for circulation made by the United States Government. In that light, the unique 1792 Plain Edge Copper Half Disme is the trial piece for the first regular issue coinage of the United States. As a unique coin, being the only one known struck in copper not silver, its historical significance cannot be over stated.