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Half cents often underappreciated, overlooked in lifetime - Coin World
Aug 25 at 9:09pm
Overlooked and underappreciated during its time, not until recent years has America’s smallest denomination coin, the half cent, received wider respect.
For a variety of reasons, the small coin never circulated like its larger brother, the large cent. This lack of use fostered halting fits of production to meet an uneven demand, and during several gaps, the coin wasn’t issued.
Nevertheless, five different half cent design types were struck for the denomination while it was issued, on and off, from 1793 through 1857.
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