Here’s my 1809 Half Cent, with the 9 over an inverted 9. Hard to show on my cell but I can see it. If I blow it up any larger it gets blurry and I know we don’t like blurry pictures. The mint produced 1,154.572 of the 1809 half cents and they had, not only the normal date, but two well known varieties of which this is one. I’m not a variety collector but I didn’t have this date so I picked it up last year and forgot to open the package. Careless of me I know but here she is. A few circulation scratches but it is 217 years old so not in bad shape at all.
Forgot to open package with a coin in it?? Dave, you blow my mind. You probably have more hidden coins than the Smithsonian.
I can hardly wait five minutes to open coin packages when they come. I am so bad at that, I almost cut a class for a recently delivered package.
I just received it in October last year. Don’t know how I forgot about it. I must have been busy with the antique shop. It was very busy last three months of the year.
There are six 1809 half cent varieties. The 9 over 6 is a blundered die. The die sinker punched the “9” in upside down and then corrected it. It’s been my experience that the 9 over 6 is the most common variety. The rarest 1809 variety has a reverse that is similar to the blundered die.
