1804 1/2C C-13, BN MS65BN Certification #44239202, PCGS #35176

***CAC*** This is the PCGS Coin Facts Plate Coin. Previously sold at 3/21/23 Stack's Bowers Auction: "...Both sides are predominantly toned in beautiful glossy antique copper, although areas of lighter golden-brown at the left obverse and upper reverse borders represent faded mint luster. Lustrous and frosty with a hard, tight texture that is expectably smooth for the assigned grade. Boldly struck, as well, with many design elements sharp to full. This is an extremely popular, easily attributable variety of the 1804 Draped Bust half cent. The Plain 4 date logotype combined with the Stemless Wreath reverse immediately identifies the Cohen-13 die marriage, the only one of this Guide Book variety. This is also the most plentiful die marriage of the issue. Given the number of Mint State coins known Walter Breen (Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of United States Half Cents: 1793-1857, 1983) believed that a hoard of Uncirculated examples may have existed at one time. Manley Die State 2.0 for the variety, with the peripheral lettering on both sides well struck, bold denticulation around half of the reverse border, and a vertical die scratch in the left obverse field. This is the typically encountered die state among extant 1804 C-13 half cents. CAC Population: 2; 0." From PCGS Coin Facts: "The two most obvious differences on 1804 half Cents relate to the 4 of the date. On some coins the horizontal crossbar of the 4 ends with a vertical crosslet; on others the 4 has no crosslet. The Crosslet 4 is slightly less common than the Plain 4. The Plain 4 obverse is combined with two different reverse types: Stems at the base of the wreath and No Stems at the base of the wreath. Only one die variety (Cohen 13) qualifies as the Plain 4, no Stems variety."