½ Dollar "Seated Liberty Half Dollar" without date arrows

Features

Issuer	United States
Period	Federal republic (1776-date)
Type	Standard circulation coin
Years	1856-1866
Value	1/2 Dollar = 50 Cents (0.50 USD)
Currency	Dollar (1785-date)
Composition	Silver (.900)
Weight	12.44 g
Diameter	30.6 mm
Thickness	2.15 mm
Shape	Round
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Number	N# 14904 Numista type number (https://numista.com)
References	KM# A68 Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA. And 4 more volumes.

Obverse

A seated bust of Liberty folding a Union shield with the date below

Lettering:
******* ******
1860

Engraver: Christian Gobrecht

Christian Gobrecht was the third Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1840 until his death in 1844. He was responsible for designing the famous "Seated Liberty" designs, which were in turn the direct inspiration for the design of the Trade Dollar.

Reverse

An eagle with the denomination below

Lettering:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HALF DOL.

Translation:
United States of America
Half Dollar

Engraver: Christian Gobrecht

Christian Gobrecht was the third Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1840 until his death in 1844. He was responsible for designing the famous "Seated Liberty" designs, which were in turn the direct inspiration for the design of the Trade Dollar.

Edge

Reeded

Mints

Comments

Info about the 1861-O half dollar:
Over 2.532 million half dollars were struck in the New Orleans Mint in the first half of 1861, using dies prepared in Philadelphia and sent to New Orleans in December 1860. Only 330,000 were struck while the New Orleans Mint was under U. S. control (January 1861). Over 962 thousand were struck after Louisiana joined the Confederacy. There were another 1.24 million that were struck after Louisiana left the Union, but before they joined the Confederacy. However, at least one source has indicated that even those were struck with the approval/permission of the Confederate Government.

Since the coins were struck with U.S. Mint dies, to the standards of U.S. coins (and using the same staff that had worked for the Mint under U. S. control!), the U. S. decided to permit the coins to remain in circulation after the Civil War.

A sequence of die usage has been researched, which indicates which coins were struck under U.S. control. (On average, only 1 of 8 pieces was minted for the U.S. ) The U.S. die used for one side of the Confederate shield half dollars was also paired with a U.S. reverse die, which can be identified by a die crack on the coin.

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