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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fish, post: 241394, member: 6034&quot;]Yes, and no.&nbsp; The fraction was on the die, but due to die alignment it was not struck onto the coin.&nbsp; I&#039;m just going to go ahead and spill it here - this is a very rare variety of half cent, the rarest obverse/reverse die pairing in the whole series, in fact.&nbsp; There are more 1796 half cents of either variety than there are of this one 1808 variety.&nbsp; I think the last time someone found a new example of this variety was in the eighties, and it&#039;s been known since the fifties.&nbsp; Most examples of this variety have the lower right reverse very weak to not at all visible due to both die misalignment and wear.&nbsp; They&#039;re also found in low grades.&nbsp; If my memory serves, the finest known is an EAC VF30 or so.&nbsp; This is (in my understanding) the sixth-finest (give or take) of ten known examples of this variety, the 1808 Cohen-1.&nbsp; Value-wise it&#039;s impossible to say what it&#039;s worth with any certainty.&nbsp; All coins have the possibility of selling in a range of values, with extreme rarities having a very large range.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t intend to sell it.&nbsp; If I did, I would expect a great deal of money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though this is such an extreme rarity, when I was at the EAC show this year showing it off, I met, I believe, three gentlemen that own four of the other nine examples.&nbsp; Yes, one gentleman has two.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one were putting together a set of business-strike half cents by Cohen variety (98 or 99 varieties, depending on who you listen to), there are about four or five coins that you are likely to have to wait literally years before you&#039;ll see one offered for sale at auction - and one of those is currently UNIQUE.&nbsp; This is one of the others.</p><p><br /></p><p>To clarify - I said this was the rarest obverse/reverse die pairing with ten known, and also that one Cohen variety was unique.&nbsp; This is not a contradiction.&nbsp; The Cohen varieties, in the 1790s, also included differences in edge device - large edge letters, small edge letters, gripped edge, and plain edge.&nbsp; Some of those varieties are currently rarer than this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fish[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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