I remember when I was looking for a 1/2 Cent Type piece and settled on 1805 as the date I wanted. it took me awhile to find one that was suitable, an AU Large 5 no stems. yours looks pretty clean with a nice planchet, mine has much better detail but some obverse porosity in the field in front of Liberty.
I remember when I was looking for a 1/2 Cent Type piece and settled on 1805 as the date I wanted. it took me awhile to find one that was suitable, an AU Large 5 no stems. yours looks pretty clean with a nice planchet, mine has much better detail but some obverse porosity in the field in front of Liberty.
The 1805 half cent is a rather underrated date. It’s scarcer than the 1800, 1804 and 1806. The small 5 stemless is the most common variety for the year followed by your coin and then two small 5 stems varieties which a very tough and rare.
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Wow, beauty!! Looks (much) nicer than the assigned grade
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Nice, accurately graded coin with wholesome surfaces!
That's a real nice coin! Actually to me it looks better than F12.
nice one.
is this the beginning of chocolate for the weekend? oh wait, we have a copper for...
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Really nice 12.
nice!!
I remember when I was looking for a 1/2 Cent Type piece and settled on 1805 as the date I wanted. it took me awhile to find one that was suitable, an AU Large 5 no stems. yours looks pretty clean with a nice planchet, mine has much better detail but some obverse porosity in the field in front of Liberty.
Looks better than F12. I like it.
+1
Love half cents!
NIce piece of early copper!
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well, it took a while but I found some pictures.
The 1805 half cent is a rather underrated date. It’s scarcer than the 1800, 1804 and 1806. The small 5 stemless is the most common variety for the year followed by your coin and then two small 5 stems varieties which a very tough and rare.
the 1805 is a date from that era which was struck out of its calendar year, distorting actual numbers of TRUE 1805 Half-Cents.
That is a nice half cent... the reverse has great detail...though what looks like a little porosity around the central area. Cheers, RickO
I agree that does look better then a f 12. Nice score
Very nice C-4! This is actually a variety I am rather fond of as well and own 3 in a little higher "details" grades.
Very nice, keets! 👍
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Only F-15? What am I missing?
Very conservatively graded. I like that. A lot of coin for the money!
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Oh my my !!!!
Nice piece!
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Beautiful chocolate brown coin @asheland ....that is the perfect look in my opinion.
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Very nice coin 👍🏻
OP... nice F12 with clean fields. ..
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