1806/5 50C O-102 (Regular Strike)
Series: Draped Bust Half Dollars 1796-1807
PCGS XF45
PCGS XF45
PCGS XF45
- PCGS #:
- 39298
- Designer:
- Robert Scot
- Edge:
- Lettered: FIFTY CENTS OR HALF A DOLLAR
- Diameter:
- 32.50 millimeters
- Weight:
- 13.50 grams
- Mintage:
- 839,576
- Mint:
- Philadelphia
- Metal:
- 89.2% Silver, 10.8% Copper
- Auction Record:
- $50,400 • MS63 • 09-04-2025 • Stack's Bowers
Die Varieties
Condition Census What Is This?
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#1 MS63 PCGS grade
Waldo C. Newcomer Collection - Colonel E.H.R. Green Collection - New Netherlands, sold privately on 4/27/1956 - Harold Bareford Collection - Stack's 10/1981:340 - Stack's 4/1983:1189 - Stack's 10/1999:346 - Alpine Numismatic's Fixed Price List6/2000 - Bowers & Merena 8/2003:1394 - Richmond Collection - David Lawrence 11/2004:1383 - Heritage 1/2010:2538 - Bowers & Merena 8/2010:518, $26,450 |
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#2 AU58 PCGS grade
Superior 10/1989:594, $3,740 |
| #3 AU55 estimated grade |
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#4 AU53 PCGS grade
Heritage 1/2016:3970, $4,230 |
#5 AU50 PCGS grade
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| #5 AU50 estimated grade |
The 1806/5 O-102 Half Dollar is a relatively common variety, but it is popular with collectors because of the overdate. This is one of two different obverse dies that were overdated by punching a 6 over the 5 of the date. On this variety, the overdate is less evident than it is on the other, but it is clear on high grade examples. Unfortunately, high grade examples are difficult to locate. The best example, and the only Mint State example to our knowledge, is a single PCGS MS63. Even AU examples are very difficult to locate. On most examples (if not all), the stars are indistinct, as is the tip of the bust. On the reverse, the clouds and stars at upper right are usually flat, as this area is opposite the tip of the bust, making it difficult for the metal to flow into all the recessed areas of the die.