1803 Half Cent Ending Auction Price

Looks like a G4 early Half Cent worth $40 or so to me,
especially buying a coin with those photos (actually I wouldn't touch it)

It's a cherrypick. 1803 C-2 in an intermediate die state. This is an R-4+ coin and the rarest of the 1803's. My first edition Penny Prices from 2003 lists it at $300 in Good and the prices today are well above that. This is probably a $500 - $600 coin. After taking a second look it seems to have some damage on the reverse so call it an AG and therefor the price it sold for is about right. My bet is the seller is wondering what happened. If you look at the bids it's clear that three of the bidders knew what it was because they all tried to snipe it with significant bids well above the current bid during the last 20 seconds. (High bid would have been showing $40 at the time the snipes began.)

Exact question I was about to ask.

Are there any rare variety 1807 Half Cents?

See the Cud above STATES? That nailed it as C-2. There are four varieties of 1803 and only C-2 develops a Cud there. C-2 does come perfect but usually has some stage of that Cud. I say intermediate state because the Cud does come larger than that. With only around a hundred known specimens in all conditions it's obvious the die must have gone to pieces quickly.

There is only one variety of 1807, but it is scarce to rare in the early die state with clear denticals.



Don't believe that. In the entire Half Cent series there are 99 die varieties. There are some 69 varieties of he 1794 cent alone. Overall there are 355 varieties of the early date cents, 450 varieties of Capped Bust halves etc.