***Auction Highlight*** 1811 Cohen-2 Classic Head half cent 1/2c Graded vg details By USCG. Up for auction is the absolute key to the Half cent series. The reported mintage for half cents during calendar year 1811 is 63,140 pieces. Based on the rarity of survivors bearing this date, however, it seems likely that most of the coins included in that mintage were from earlier-dated dies. In fact, numismatic researcher R.W. Julian has suggested that most of the 63,140 half cents struck in 1811 were dated 1810. Julian's estimated mintage for coins actually bearing the 1811 date is on the order of just 25,000 to 30,000 pieces, if not even fewer. Of the two known die marriages Cohen-2, offered here, is slightly more obtainable in today's market overall. However, C-2 is scarcer than C-1 in high grades, according to both Walter Breen (1983) and Ronald P. Manley (1998)