1875-CC 50C Liberty Seated Half Dollar PCGS XF45 (CAC)

Helpful PCGS XF45 CAC Price Information:

Collector's Universe: $1,250.

CAC: $1,250.

Coin Dealer Newsletter: $800.

Relevant CAC auction records: 

• 03/2022 HA @ $1,740. (#43076082 - the present coin)
• 11/2021 SB @ $1,200. (#43076082 - the present coin)

Here’s a more affordable Carson City half dollar to include in your collection. Its large mintage of 1,008,000 was in response to the Specie Resumption Act of January of 1875. That Act required the redemption of paper currency in gold or silver coinage.

PCGS has graded 30 as XF45 with 175 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $1,250.00 in XF45. In CAC, there are 10 in XF45 with 28 finer. CAC gives this issue a price of $1,250.00 in XF45.

Ron Guth writes in PCGS Coinfacts, “The 1875-CC Half Dollar is semi-scarce, but those two little letters on the reverse (the CC mintmark) add a lot of value.”

According to Rusty Goe, production at the Carson City Mint in 1875 was ramped up as never before. The workers at the Nevada mint had struck around 1.6 million coins in 1874 (with 86 percent being Trade dollars), however in 1875 they managed to produce a little over 7.6 million pieces in the mint’s two coin presses. Of that massive total, the 1875-CC half dollars counted for 13 percent.

Goe estimates that 80 to 100 1875-CC half dollars survive in Mint State plus 200 to 300 in XF to AU grades, with 1,000 to 2,000 examples in total.

One of Christian Gobrecht’s original sketches of the iconic Seated Liberty design. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.