1853 1/2C, BN MS65BN 认证号12245471, PCGS号1227

CAC stickered. A pleasant brown cent with significant red peaking through along the devices. Purchased at the 2008 Baltimore ANA show. This coin has a lot of character. My first purchase from Albanese Rare Coins after looking though their inventory for years! We finally connected! Thanks, guys.

Ron Guth

The 1853 Half Cent has the second highest mintage of the Braided Hair type, but that is a relative term since every date in this type boasts a low mintage.  By way of comparison, the mintage of the 1853 Half Cent is almost a fourth of the mintage of the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent (a far more valuable coin), making this an excellent value for the type collector.  Circulated examples are fairly easy to find; even Mint State examples can be located with relative ease.  The trouble is finding an example with Full Red color...they simply do not exist.  Even Red-Brown examples are scarce.  The finest 1853 Half Cents cerfified by PCGS as of February 2011 are a pair of MS-66BNs.