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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26760102, member: 101855&quot;]I picked the 1800 over 2 half cent. I owned a nice one at one time although it came back to me in body bag. The ignorant person who made that judgement said it had been cleaned. It was from the Garrett Sale, and some EAC people graded it as high as VF-30.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sold it when I was a dealer because I broke up my half cent die variety collection. It was in an ANACS &quot;soap bar&quot; holder when I sold it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This half cent has an interesting history. The entire mintage was made from cut down large cent planchets which were deeded too poor to use for large cents. The obverse was made from an overdated 1800 half cent die which had not been used previously.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first pieces were struck with the reverse from the 1800 half cent. That variety is quite rare. (variety Cohen 1) The more common variety was struck from a die which used &quot;the new lettering.&quot;(variety Cohen 2)</p><p><br /></p><p>Most 1802 over 2 half cents are well worn and unattractive. The fact that they were made from sub-par, cut down planchets certainly contributed to that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the piece I sold many years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1708743[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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