http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/1852_O_half_dime_scarcer_than_16_D_dime/ Sound nice very scarce 1852-o half dime pretty scarce.
A good value for sure. :thumb: ...if you can find them at the prices listed in the article. This is another example of the effect of "Collector Base" on the value of a coin. The Key date of a popular series such as the 1916-D Mercury Dime will always command a significant premium over scarcer coins of a lesser collected series.
ahhhhhhhhh if mintages actually had anything to do with value!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_cent_(United_States_coin) ha the last bracked doesnt want to remain as part of the link. bleh it gets you there anyway.
Depends on whether or not they have updated the prices from whenever he wrote the article. (Paul Green has been dead for several years. They keep rerunning his articles and just updating the prices listed in them.)
Mintages are only one factor, the current supply of the coin and the demand of the coin are the other contributing factors. It seems to me like this is a fairly low mintage, low supply, and low demand coin. This coin could take off, but not likely, although I really wouldn't mind owning one, but I bet there are better dates out there that I would look for first.
During WW-II my Dad, was assigned to set up HQ for the 84th Infantry - 19th AAA Group - Anti Aircraft Field Artillery somewhere in Germany - and he commandeered a "Schloss" [ castle ] for that purpose. In his new office - there was an old Roll-Top type desk - which was locked. A few minutes with his bayonet - the lock gave way. In one of the desk's hidden compart- ments was a cache of coins and medals. Oddly enough one of the coins was something my Dad had never seen before - even though it was imprinted United States of America. It was also the smallest US coin he had ever seen. A "Half Dime" he read...hmmm, he thought to himself, that's a Nickel, and I can buy an ice cream back home with that. Gladly, he sent it to his Father, who dabbled in coins, and I recently sent this Half Dime to PCGS to be graded. It came back as an XF 45. Oh... yeah, the year: 1852-O
