Set report · United States · Half Cents & Cents
Liberty Cap & Variety Cents: Who Owns What
How often each Liberty Cap & Variety Cents coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 231 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 Liberty Cap & Variety Cents catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1793 | 11,056 | 167 | 72.3% | Common |
| 1793 Chain | — | 219 | 94.8% | Common |
| 1793 Wreath | — | 186 | 80.5% | Common |
| 1793 AMERICA (Variety) | — | 15 | 6.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1793 AMERICA No Periods (Variety) | — | 16 | 6.9% | Extremely scarce |
| 1793 Lettered Edge (Variety) | — | 12 | 5.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1793 Strawberry Leaf (Variety) | — | 15 | 6.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1794 | — | 181 | 78.4% | Common |
| 1794 No Fraction Bar (Error) | — | 10 | 4.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1794 Exact Head of 1795 (Variety) | — | 15 | 6.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1794 Head in Low Relief (Variety) | — | 11 | 4.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1794 Head of 1794 (Variety) | — | 21 | 9.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1794 Starred Reverse (Variety) | — | 13 | 5.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1795 | — | 164 | 71% | Uncommon |
| 1795 Jefferson Head Lettered Edge (Variety) | — | 10 | 4.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1795 Jefferson Head Plain Edge (Variety) | — | 12 | 5.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1795 Plain Edge (Variety) | — | 19 | 8.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1795 Reeded Edge (Variety) | — | 12 | 5.2% | Extremely scarce |
| 1796 | 109,825 | 183 | 79.2% | 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.