Set report · United States · Half Cents & Cents
Draped Bust Half Cent: Who Owns What
How often each Draped Bust Half Cent coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 356 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 Draped Bust Half Cent catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1800 | 202,908 | 202 | 56.7% | Common |
| 1802 | 20,266 | 172 | 48.3% | Common |
| 1802 Reverse of 1800 (Variety) | — | 8 | 2.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1803 | 92,000 | 188 | 52.8% | Common |
| 1803 Widely Spaced 3 (Variety) | — | 13 | 3.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1804 | — | 207 | 58.1% | Common |
| 1804 Crosslet 4, Stemless (Variety) | — | 12 | 3.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1804 Crosslet 4, Stems (Variety) | — | 19 | 5.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1804 Plain 4, Stemless to Wreath (Variety) | — | 20 | 5.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1804 Spiked Chin (Variety) | — | 15 | 4.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1805 | — | 164 | 46.1% | Common |
| 1805 Large 5, Stems (Variety) | — | 12 | 3.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1805 Small 5, Stems (Variety) | — | 11 | 3.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1806 | — | 172 | 48.3% | Common |
| 1806 Large 6, Stems (Variety) | — | 11 | 3.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1806 Small 6, Stemless (Variety) | — | 15 | 4.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1807 | 476,000 | 173 | 48.6% | Common |
| 1807 Crosslet 4, Stemless (Variety) | — | 2 | 0.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1808 | 400,000 | 198 | 55.6% | Common |
| 1808 8 Over 7 (Variety) | — | 12 | 3.4% | Extremely scarce |
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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.