1839-O 50C AU55 Certification #27700980, PCGS #6181

CAC green sticker. GR-1. CAC pop data: 91 total, 10 on grade, 18 higher. Bought at 2020 Winter FUN show in Orlando from David Kahn Rare Coins. Comment from DKRC: CAC approved. As crusty, choice and original an example of this totally cool date as I've ever handled. In fact, I bought and sold a PC58 CAC a few years back...and that coin didn't hold a candle to this one! A truly welcome change from the played-with 39-O halves I generally see. Enjoy this one, though don't dawdle...when it's gone, I don't have another one up my sleeve! Comment from Stacks Bowers: This is the second time the New Orleans mintmark appeared on the obverse of the half dollar, the first time of course on the extremely rare 1838-O half dollar. The 1839-O is the only realistically obtainable mintmarked half dollar of the Capped Bust design type as far as most collectors are concerned, although we stress that most survivors are well worn, impaired, or both. This is the second of just two dates in the design type struck at a branch mint, and one of just two years in the denomination with an obverse mintmark. (The 1838-O, struck in the opening year of New Orleans coinage operations, saw a reported mintage of just 20 pieces, with fewer than that number known to today's numismatic community -- the 1839-O is the only Capped Bust half dollar date of the two from that mint that turns up in the numismatic marketplace at regular intervals.) Traded my 1839-0 AU 53 (no CAC sticker) and $2100 for this coin.