Set report · United States · Two Cents, Three Cents & Half Dimes
Capped Bust Half Dime: Who Owns What
How often each Capped Bust Half Dime coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 365 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 Capped Bust Half Dime catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1829 | 1,230,000 | 161 | 44.1% | Common |
| 1830 | 1,240,000 | 127 | 34.8% | Common |
| 1831 | 1,242,700 | 136 | 37.3% | Common |
| 1832 | 965,000 | 139 | 38.1% | Common |
| 1833 | 1,370,000 | 128 | 35.1% | Common |
| 1834 | 1,480,000 | 117 | 32.1% | Uncommon |
| 1834 3 Over Inverted 3 (Error) | — | 7 | 1.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1835 | — | 126 | 34.5% | Common |
| 1835 Large Date and 5 C | 2,760,000 | 1 | 0.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1835 Large Date and Small 5 C (Variety) | — | 12 | 3.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1835 Small Date and 5 C (Variety) | — | 12 | 3.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1835 Small Date and Large 5 C (Variety) | — | 16 | 4.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1836 | — | 117 | 32.1% | Uncommon |
| 1836 Small 5 C | 1,900,000 | 21 | 5.8% | Very scarce |
| 1836 Large 5 C (Variety) | — | 15 | 4.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1837 | — | 126 | 34.5% | Common |
| 1837 Small 5 C | 871,000 | 3 | 0.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1837 Large 5 C (Variety) | — | 17 | 4.7% | Very 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.