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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Omegaraptor, post: 8647043, member: 76105&quot;]It is true that you do not see the 1811 half cents very often. There are two varieties, C-1 in all die states is R-4- and C-2 is R-3-, which would add up to about 600 total 1811 half cents extant. Per the mintage figures much fewer of them survived than the 1825s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would not be surprised if a portion of the mintage reported for 1811 was actually coins dated 1810, and the true mintage for 1811 dated coins was lower than 63,140. At this time the Mint reused old dies and any coins struck in that calendar year would go to that year&#039;s mintage figure regardless of date. For example about 900,000 large cents were struck in 1799, however, in no place does it mention they were dated 1799 (the vast majority of them were in fact dated 1798).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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