1855 Braided Hair Half Cent, PCGS MS-63BN
1855 Braided Hair Half Cent, PCGS MS-63BN
Cohen-1, just the one variety for the year. Considered a common date, despite a mintage of only 56,500 - try that with any more popular (and actually far more common) 20th Century series such as Lincoln Cents! Such is the lot of the “Little Half Sisters”, considered mainly a Type coin. This is an attractive original Uncirculated coin typical of those put aside in the mid to late 1850’s as the series was retired, as an example of the vanished breed. Some well hidden, very wispy “hairlines” in the field in front of Liberty’s face, not from a cleaning but due to random non-numismatic storage (light enough that I could not get a clear image to show them). This storage also produced the slightly uneven Obverse color. Still shows signs original Red surface in areas of the Obverse, otherwise a mostly medium Chocolate Brown. I will note a similarly graded example of this date is currently (March, 2021) being offered by a well known specialist at a higher price . While technically correctly graded, it is less attractive in my opinion, due to some obvious contact marks in prime focal areas, which the example offered here is not affected by.
PCGS 1233.63/41075564