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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 24688849, member: 9270&quot;]I have a 1795 half cent in a PCGS slab.</p><p>I&#039;m trying to ID the variety using Ed Fuhrman&#039;s book, <i>The Half Cent Handbook/Liberty Cap Varieties 1793-1797</i>.</p><p>The slab ID&#039;s the coin as <b>Lettered Edge</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Using Fuhrman&#039;s book I&#039;ve got it ID&#039;ed as a C-2.</p><p>But here&#039;s the &quot;fly in the ointment&quot;.</p><p>There are two varieties of a 1795 C-2, <i>Thick Planchet</i> and <i>Thin Planchet</i>.</p><p>The coin on a thick planchet is a rarity 3+.</p><p>The coin on a thin planchet is a rarity 8.</p><p><b>BIG</b> value difference between the two.</p><p>But it&#039;s easy to differentiate between the two; just weigh the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oops!!!</p><p>That&#039;s the downside of a slabbed coin.</p><p>I cannot weigh just the coin.</p><p>And &quot;no&quot;, I&#039;m not going to crack it out.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll work on the assumption that my coin is on a thick planchet.</p><p>Highly unlikely that I&#039;ve got the R-8 variety.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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