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Half Dime · $0.05
1849-P Seated Liberty Half Dime (1837-1873)
FS-301
Key Features
Overdate, 9 over 6
Intriguing History
In 1849, President Polk's expansionist agenda was reshaping the map: the Mexican-American War added vast new territory in the Southwest, and the discovery of gold in California in 1848 was just beginning to pull fortune-seekers west and pour fresh bullion into the nation's mints. This Seated Liberty half dime, the smallest U.S. silver coin ever regularly struck, was doing its small-change work in exactly this period.