1795 C-6b lettered edge Liberty Cap Half Cent Better Pictures-Second known Example
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Here are some better quality pics of my Rarity-8 (second known example) Half Cent
A 1795 Cohen 6-b lettered edge Liberty Cap Half Cent (104.4 grain)
It has no pole Obverse with the L in LIBERTY close to the Cap and a "D" Reverse (with a leaf tip just under the letter I in AMERICA) and small style edge lettering.
I have an article describing this discovery in the April edition of Penny-Wise on p. 77 from Early American Coppers.
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been wondering about you recently and meaning to bump one of your threads.
i TTT your other thread.
is this article referring to your coin?
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The article describes this coin and how I found it,
Are you an Early American Coppers member?
What does TTT mean?
Jon
Let me clarify.
The article I mentioned here is the articlein Penny-Wise and is about my coin.
The article that the link you sent takes you to, is the first example discovered by Ed Fuhrman,
Jon
TTT = to the top. Shortcut way to bring an older thread current.
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i asked about the ngc article since you posted here last year about your coin and the article is march 2019. didn't figure 2 previously known examples would come to light in such a short period although it does happen that way sometimes.
i have an EAC # but don't recall what it is. glad to see pennywise still going strong!
congratz on your ever-going study and acquisition of some very tough marriages/varieties of the little half sisters!
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Thank You.
No-one was more surprised than me to find this second example.
In one of Ed's articles, he mentioned that, now that he discovered the first one, it was his bet that more would be identified in a year or two.
And he was correct, much to my delight,
do you have any commentary as to the indirect implications of such finds after 226 years???
OR is this one of those re-discovered situations similar to T. Deck's 1825 N-5 "discovery?" I also talked with R. Burress at a few shows and he told me about some really really neat stuff he saw/purchased after he noticed my obsession passion for early coppers. one of them was about a variety (perhaps an NC) that he "re-discovered" that had long since been "forgotten/unproved" about which is the case all too many times throughout the annals of history until one day in the future.
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I don't think this was a re-discovery, as I have never seen a Cohen -6, thick or thin planchet, mentioned anywhere in the literature with a lettered edge.
My example had been in possession of a family in Salem, Massachusetts, for at least four generations.
Probably nobody with knowledge of the different varieties had ever looked at it until I did, and realized it was something special/different.
This discovery probably will upset a lot of variety collectors, since now their collection will be incomplete.
Here is a youtube link or an EAC Zoom presentation where the first example and my example are shown by Ed Fuhrman,
Skip to about the 22 minute mark for the presentation.
It is about 20 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1knyT0Aj4c&feature=emb_logo