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This one is pretty scarce.

P53

The 1840-O was the first half eagle struck at the New Orleans Mint. The first group of coins struck had a slightly larger diameter than the rest of the mintage and are known as the "Broad Mill" variety (NGC designates them as "Large Diameter").

It has long been thought that the Broad Mill mintage was 4,620, the figure reported by Breen. However, a few months ago I spent some time digging through the New Orleans Mint records in the Newman portal and discovered that Breen's figure was incorrect - the Broad Mill mintage was actually 3,200 (this is less than 10% of the total mintage of 1840-O half eagles). I noticed that Breen had mistakenly included January mintage numbers from a pro forma template provided by the Philadelphia Mint; the first half eagle dies were not received by New Orleans until February.

I corroborated this finding with Nancy Oliver and Richard Kelly, who have noticed similar errors in the 1840 mintage figures, and they are planning to include this finding in their revised New Orleans Mint Treatise (which is a fantastic resource, by the way).

To date NGC has designated 17 Broad Mill coins. This is one of the four AU58s; there is one finer in MS61. For some reason PCGS does not designate this variety, though the Coinfacts page for the 1840-O half eagle acknowledges its existence and describes it in great detail.

58 CAC

I recently sold this 1850-O. I like one dollar gold but my vision isn’t what it used to be and I’m beginning to feel the same way about quarter eagles.

Thought I would share my ‘51-O
Courtesy of DD before the origination of Peak!👍
Edited to add: EF45cac
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Some of our favorite O Mints sold in the past year. Holder images are a bit big.

1855-O G$1 XF40 OH NGC GOLD CAC

1839-O $2.5 AU50 OH NGC CAC

1845-O $2.5 VF35 PCGS GOLD CAC

1846/'5'-O $10 AU55 PCGS CAC

1880-O $10 AU55 OGH PCGS GOLD CAC

1851-O $20 VF35 OGH PCGS GOLD CAC

1857-O $20 VF35 OGH PCGS CAC

1850-O $2.5 XF40 PCGS CAC

1854-O $3 AU50 PCGS CAC

1843-O $5 SM LT AU58 PCGS CAC

1851-O $5 AU58 PCGS CAC

1843-O $10 MS61 PCGS CAC

1880-O $10 MS63 PCGS CAC

@skier07 said:
P53

Tough coin, but extremely tough in CAC AU! This is one of the dates i would go for to get an "O" mint.
Great score!

Great thread. Here are some favorite half eagles, all CAC:

Thanks to @johnny010. Favorite double eagle in the set.

Here is my only New Orlean’s coin.