United States 1806 half dollar

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Sincona Auction 103, lot 1015

This specimen was lot 1015 in Sincona Auction 103 (Zürich, May 2026), where it sold for 7,000 CHF (about US$10,668 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"USA, 1/2 Dollar 1806, Philadelphia. Draped bust type. Selten. Attraktives sehr schön. (Rare, Attractive Very Fine.)"

This issue is among the more plentiful of the early draped bust half dollars of 1801-07. Varieties include knobbed or pointed 6 (knobbed 6 shown here), stem or no stem (with stem shown here), large or small stars, a 6 over inverted 6 and various combinations thereof. Half dollars competed with Latin American four reales in the early years of the republic.

Recorded mintage: 839,576, all varieties.

Specification: 13.48 g, 0.892 fine silver, 32.5 mm diameter, edge lettered FIFTY CENTS OR HALF A DOLLAR, this specimen 13.51 g.

Catalog reference: KM 35.

Source:

  • Alexander, David T., Coin World Comprehensive Catalog & Encyclopedia of United States Coins, Sidney, OH: Amos Press, 1995.
  • Breen, Walter H., Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U. S. and Colonial Coins, New York: Doubleday, 1987.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Yeoman, R. S., and Kenneth Bressett (ed.), A Guide Book of United States Coins, 65th Ed., Atlanta, GA: Whitman Publishing, 2011.
  • [1]Richter, Jürg, Michael Hardmeier, Michael Otto, Arne Kirsch, Ruedi Kunzmann and Timur Demirai, SINCONA Auction 103: World and Swiss coins and medals, Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2026.

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