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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7409573, member: 66&quot;]It is a S-87, the most common of the 1796 liberty caps.&nbsp; ALL of the 1796 caps have the single leaf 1795 rev and all the 1796&#039;s are plain edge.&nbsp; The lettered edges ended in December of 1795 with the weight reduction.&nbsp; The 1795 S-77, 78, and some of the S-76&#039;s were made in 1796 after the weight reduction on plain edge planchets and then they started the 96 caps.&nbsp; They struck about 109,000 caps and then in July began the 96 draped busts.&nbsp; Oddly although the made more than 3 times as many 1796 Draped busts, they are significantly rarer than the 96 caps. When I started collecting them there was only one variety of draped bust lower than an R-4 and most of them were R-5&#039;s.&nbsp; 20 of the 35 varieties are STILL R-5 or higher.&nbsp; There are now 5 varieties that are down to R-3, and 10 that are R-4.&nbsp; The 1796 draped busts are not easy to collect by variety.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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