1806 50C Pointed 6, Stem F15 Certification #42284222, PCGS #6071

Overton 116, R.3 Pointed 6, w/stem variety appears on the label. Interesting die cracks steal our attention mainly on the obverse, but also on the reverse. While the PCGS label fails to name an Overton die variety, a number of diagnostics help identify this example as O-116. Using language from Donald L. Parsley's volume on Overton varieties, the O-116 obverse description reads, in part: "Die crack at bottom of date becomes sharper, branching into two cracks at left. The crack gradually extends to the right of date and to left through all stars. A new crack appears at top of LIBER. T is broadly recut." The reverse description reads, in part: "Five berries, the lowest one has no stem and is about centered with the last A in AMERICA. Right base of F is missing. A die crack crosses lower tip of eagle's tail feathers and circles to left joining top of UNITED, then above S and through upper part of TATE on later die states." Purchased via eBay from a pawn shop in Colorado, July 22, 2026. $800.

Ron Guth

The 1806 Pointed 6, Stems Half Dollar is one of the more common major types of the year.  Nineteen different Overton varieties, plus their die states, comprise the entire mintage of this major variety.  As such, collectors have many opportunities to acquire an example in a wide range of grades, including Mint State (PCGS has certified more Mint State examples of this type than any other -- by far).  The PCGS CoinFacts Condition Census starts at MS64+ and goes up from there.  The record price for this date was achieved by the Garrett coin when it reappeared at auction in 2015 and sold (as a PCGS MS66) for $182,125.  However, there is an even better example "out there" -- a PCGS MS67 that has yet to come to market.  That coin is the single finest Draped Bust Half Dollar in existence.