Years
Designer
Robert Scot after Gilbert Stuart
Composition
100% copper
Diameter
23.5 mm
Mass
5.44 g
Thickness
1.8 mm
Edge
Plain
Mints
Philadelphia
Metal
Copper
Design
Draped Liberty after the Stuart ‘antique’ portrait used across silver; reverse wreath. Stemless wreath and spiked-chin varieties are collected by Cohen numbers.
History
The Draped Bust half cent is the first half-cent type a collector can still assemble by date without a six-figure budget. 1802/0 reverse of 1800 is the key. These coins bought a newspaper or a tot of rum in Jefferson’s America.
Key dates
9 issues