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Half Dollars: Draped Bust Half Dollars



TYPE COIN

1796-1797 50c MS [Type]

TYPE COIN

1801-1807 50c MS [Type]

1796 50c MS 15 Stars

Mintage: 3,918

1796 50c SP 15 Stars

1796 50c MS 16 Stars

1797 50c MS

1801 50c MS

Mintage: 30,289

1802 50c MS

Mintage: 29,890

1803 50c MS

Mintage: 188,234

1803 50c MS Small 3

1805 50c MS

Mintage: 211,722

1805/4 50c MS

1806/5 50c MS

1806 50c MS 6/Inverted 6

1806 50c MS Knob 6, Large Stars

1806 50c MS Knob 6, Small Stars

1806 50c MS Knob 6, No Stems

1806 50c MS Pointed 6, Stems

1806 50c MS Pointed 6, No Stems

1807 50c MS Draped Bust

1807 50c SP Specimen Draped Bust

Series Overview

Bust half dollars, referring to all early half dollars made between 1794 and 1839, include various design types ranging from the Flowing Hair type, include the Draped Bust type, and wrap up with the Capped Bust design. Robert Scot is credited as the engraver for the Flowing Hair and Draped Bust types, while Gilbert Stuart is noted as the designer for the latter. John Reich designed the Capped Bust type.

The Draped Bust motif ran from 1796 through 1807 and as a type is more widely available than the Flowing Hair halves, but all varieties of the 1796 and 1797 halves are exceedingly rare, and combined over both years only 3,918 minted, and only a few hundred examples -- mostly circulated -- remain today.