1806 Draped Bust Half Dollar


1806 Draped Bust Half Dollar

Pointed 6, No Stem

Circulation Mintage: 839,576 For All Types
Obverse Text: 1806 | LIBERTY
Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | E PLURIBUS UNUM

Only two varieties of 1806 half dollars use a reverse with no stem through the eagle’s claw, O-109 and the extremely rare O-108. This variety appears to have been first published in the so-called “Haseltine Type Table,” an 1881 auction by John Haseltine that was published as a monograph, thereafter serving as the first listing of die varieties of quarter dollars, half dollars, and silver dollars. The collection was built by J. Colvin Randall, a Philadelphia numismatist, and it was Randall who wrote the Type Table, despite Haseltine’s claims of authorship. Randall owned a specimen he called Uncirculated. His idea that the variety was extremely rare has been modified by later discoveries, as collecting half dollars by variety has become a popular pastime in the 20th and 21st centuries.

View 1806 Pointed 6, No Stem Draped Bust Half Dollar Auction Results

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the D. Brent Pogue Part I Auction, where it realized $129,250.

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