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1805 Draped Bust Half Cent 1/2c Grades f+

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1805 Draped Bust Half Cent 1/2c Grades f+
1805 Draped Bust Half Cent 1/2c Grades f+. Attractive 1805 Draped Bust Half cent, no stems variety. Cohen-1 Obv: Medium 5 in the date, with a line close above that is apparently the remnant of an earlier punching. The upright of the letter R in LIBERTY is missing its right foot. This is the only use of this obverse die. Rev: The Stemless Wreath reverse, and readily attributable, as such. Single leaf at the top of the left branch in the wreath, double leaf at the top of the right branch in the wreath; there are six berries on the left branch, five berries on the right branch. All of the Ts are normal, but the right foot is missing from both Ns (CENT and UNITED). There is a long die scratch from the base of the letter E in UNITED to the tip of the leaf below the outer berry left of the letter C in CENT. This is the same reverse earlier used in the 1804 C-12 and C-13 pairings, and later in the 1806 C-1 marriage. Cohen-1 is the only die variety that corresponds to the Medium 5, Stemless Wreath Guide Book variety of the 1805 half cent.