Set report · United States · Half Cents & Cents
Classic Cent: Who Owns What
How often each Classic Cent coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 307 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 Classic Cent catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1808 | 1,007,000 | 210 | 68.4% | Common |
| 1809 | 222,867 | 172 | 56% | Common |
| 1810 | 1,458,500 | 200 | 65.1% | Common |
| 1810 10 Over 9 (Error) | — | 12 | 3.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1811 | 218,025 | 152 | 49.5% | Uncommon |
| 1811 Last 1 Over 0 (Error) | — | 12 | 3.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1812 | — | 183 | 59.6% | Common |
| 1812 Large Date (Variety) | — | 19 | 6.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1813 | 418,000 | 171 | 55.7% | Common |
| 1814 | — | 206 | 67.1% | Common |
| 1814 Crosslet 4 (Variety) | — | 19 | 6.2% | Extremely 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.