Set report · United States · Half Cents & Cents
Liberty Cap Half Cent: Who Owns What
How often each Liberty Cap Half Cent coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 327 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 Half Cent catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1793 | 35,334 | 631 | 193% | Common |
| 1794 | 81,600 | 393 | 120.2% | Uncommon |
| 1794 High-Relief Head (Variety) | — | 18 | 5.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 1795 | — | 362 | 110.7% | Uncommon |
| 1795 Lettered Edge, Punctuated Date (Variety) | — | 20 | 6.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 1795 Plain Edge, No Pole (Variety) | — | 13 | 4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1795 Plain Edge, Punctuated Date (Variety) | — | 14 | 4.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1796 | — | 356 | 108.9% | Uncommon |
| 1796 No Pole (Variety) | — | 11 | 3.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1797 | — | 452 | 138.2% | Uncommon |
| 1797 Plain Edge | 127,840 | 1 | 0.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 1797 1 Above 1, Plain Edge (Error) | — | 19 | 5.8% | Extremely scarce |
| 1797 Gripped Edge (Variety) | — | 15 | 4.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 1797 Lettered Edge (Variety) | — | 13 | 4% | Extremely scarce |
| 1797 Plain Edge, Low Head (Variety) | — | 12 | 3.7% | 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.