Set report · United States · Half Cents & Cents
Braided Hair Half Cent: Who Owns What
How often each Braided Hair Half Cent coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 306 collectors of this set have one. Coins are graded from Common to Extremely scarce against the set's most-owned coin — a measure of collecting frequency, not of how many survive.
Hardest to find in real collections
The five least-owned coins of the set — ownership counts are collector-reported.
…and the ones everybody has
Full set: ownership & rarity, coin by coin
Values by grade for each of these live on the Braided Hair Half Cent catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1840 (Proof) | — | 12 | 3.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1840 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 3 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1841 (Proof) | — | 9 | 2.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1841 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 4 | 1.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1842 (Proof) | — | 11 | 3.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1842 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 4 | 1.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1843 (Proof) | — | 10 | 3.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1843 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 3 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1844 (Proof) | — | 10 | 3.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1844 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 4 | 1.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1845 (Proof) | — | 9 | 2.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1845 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 3 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1846 (Proof) | — | 10 | 3.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1846 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 3 | 1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1847 (Proof) | — | 12 | 3.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1847 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 4 | 1.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1848 (Proof) | — | 11 | 3.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1848 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 4 | 1.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1849 | 39,864 | 170 | 55.6% | Common |
| 1849 (Proof) | — | 8 | 2.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1849 Restrike (Proof Variety) | — | 4 | 1.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1850 | 39,812 | 133 | 43.5% | Uncommon |
| 1851 | 147,672 | 180 | 58.8% | Common |
| 1853 | 129,694 | 167 | 54.6% | Common |
| 1854 | 55,358 | 152 | 49.7% | Common |
| 1855 | 56,500 | 151 | 49.3% | Common |
| 1856 | 40,430 | 135 | 44.1% | Uncommon |
| 1857 | 35,180 | 145 | 47.4% | Common |
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Based on the share of this set's collectors who own each coin — how often it turns up in a collection, not how many survive. Not the Sheldon rarity scale.
About these numbers
Ownership counts come from the same live per-coin counters shown across the LuckyCoin catalog; set-level collector counts come from the annual full-collection scan behind The State of Coin Collecting 2026. Counts are collector-reported and aggregate-only. Scarcity tiers come from 100 × (1 − owners ÷ owners of the set's most-owned coin): Common under 25, Uncommon 25–49, Scarce 50–74, Very scarce 75–89, Extremely scarce 90+. This reflects how often a coin is collected, not its surviving population — it is not the Sheldon rarity scale. CC BY 4.0 with attribution.