Set report · United States · Two Cents, Three Cents & Half Dimes
Draped Bust Half Dime: Who Owns What
How often each Draped Bust Half Dime coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 128 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 Dime catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1796 | — | 110 | 85.9% | Common |
| 1796 6 Over 5 (Error) | — | 8 | 6.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1796 LIKERTY (Error) | — | 8 | 6.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1797 | — | 94 | 73.4% | Common |
| 1797 13 Stars (Variety) | — | 10 | 7.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1797 15 Stars (Variety) | — | 8 | 6.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1800 | 24,000 | 87 | 68% | Common |
| 1800 LIBEKTY (Error) | — | 9 | 7% | Extremely scarce |
| 1801 | 27,760 | 87 | 68% | Common |
| 1802 | 3,060 | 98 | 76.6% | Common |
| 1803 | — | 95 | 74.2% | Common |
| 1803 Small 8 (Variety) | — | 10 | 7.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1805 | 15,600 | 95 | 74.2% | 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.