This is a 1853 US half dime minted in 1853 in New Orleans. It's 168 years old and super cool! First published in November of 1946 this book is seeing it's 75th anniversary edition being printed soon and

Well the two coins I order from that ebay sale last week have landed and today we will look at an 1853 - New Orleans minted half dime. It's one of the funnies (to me) denominations on a coin, half dime.