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Liberty Cap Half Cents
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LIBERTY CAP HALF CENTS -
HEAD LEFT (1793 ONLY)
The Liberty Cap - Head Left design was used only in 1793.
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Liberty Cap Cents 1793-1796 Coin Guide
Liberty Cap Cents 1793-1796
The Liberty Cap large cents of 1793-1796 are the classics of early American copper coinage.

Liberty Cap half cents possess undeniable appeal for both novice and advanced numismatists, and enjoy strong demand from date, die variety and type collectors.

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Liberty Cap Half Cent - Head Facing Right 1794-1797
Liberty Cap Half Cent - Head Facing Left 1793
Draped Bust Half Cents 1800-1808 ...

Liberty Cap Head Left Half Cents (1793)
Liberty Cap Head Right Half Cents (1794-1797)
Draped Bust Half Cents (1800-1808)
Classic Head Half Cents (1809-1836)
Coronet Type Half Cents (1840-1857) ...

Liberty Cap: design type of U.S. copper coins struck from 1793-1796.
Liberty Head: any of the anonymous female heads that have appeared on U.S. coins.

Liberty Cap
The head of Miss Liberty, with a cap on a pole by her head, used on certain U.S. half cents and large cents.

* Liberty Cap Left-Facing Half Cents 1793 Regular Strikes--Bent Cap, Bunch Leaves, may be worth as much as $125,000 MS-65
* Liberty Cap Right-Facing Half Cents 1794-1797 Regular Strikes--1797 Lettered Edge, may be worth $11,000 Very Fine ...

The Liberty Cap motif, the symbol of freedom derived from the cap given to slaves freed in ancient times, occurs over a long period in American numismatics, ...

The Liberty Cap large cents of 1793-1796 are the classics of early American copper coinage.

The Liberty Cap Half Cent where minted from 1794-1797, and during these times there where copper shortages. So, many of these coins where struck over a Talbot, Allum and Lee Token, because they where a cheaper acquisition of copper.

Facing eagle and liberty cap designs were struck from 1824-1909. return to Perspectives in Numismatics ...

1794, LARGE CENT, Liberty Cap Type, Head of 1794, S-22 "Bent Lock/Mounds on reverse", Very Fine-20, nice surface, two slight small flan defects on obverse, ...

Two Daggers and a Liberty Cap - and the Portrait of a King?: Brutus issued the EID MAR silver denarius to remind his soldiers that they fought for the Roman Republic.

Inspired by the design, the combination of the liberty cap and Miss Liberty appeared in other forms as well, including Christian Gobrecht's silver coinage of the 1830s, extending for some denominations to 1891, and on many patterns, medals, ...

The central design on the obverse was comprised of a Liberty Head and Liberty Cap on Pole not unlike a very similar design originally appearing on Augustin Dupre's, ...

Basic Half-Cent Types include the Liberty Cap Left (1793 only), Liberty Cap Right, Draped Bust, Classic Head and Braided Hair issues. The cent during this period (1793-1857) went through several major design changes as well.

Collectors will often see the designations primarily assigned to the half cent series (Liberty Cap, Draped Bust, Classic Head, and Coronet); large cents (Flowing Hair, Liberty Cap, Draped Bust, Classic Head and Coronet); Indian Head and Lincoln cents; ...

Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796
Draped Bust Cent, 1796-1807
Classic Head Cent, 1808-1814
Coronet Cent, 1816-1857
Flying Eagle Cent, 1856-1858
Indian Head cent, 1859-1909
Lincoln Wheat Ears Cent, 1909-1958
Lincoln Memorial Cent, 1959-Present ...

REPUBLICA DE CUBA / PATRIA Y LIBERTAD
Liberty cap with * surmounting fasces, legend above and below, purity rating in left field, denomination in right field
Reeded Edge
6.2500g, .9000 Silver, .1808 ASW, 24mm
Mintage: 19,000,000
KM 27 ...

Coin Reference Library - Half Cents Liberty Cap Type 1793-1797
Draped Bust Type 1800-1808
Classic Head Type 1809-1836 ...

These are the coins with romantic names like ducat, guilder, sovereign, liberty cap, coronet head, indian head, St Gaudens, corona and so on, which were actual high value circulation coins before all countries went off the gold standard.

In 1815 quarters were again minted and this time the portrait of Liberty faces left and is wearing a Liberty Cap. For the first time the Latin Legend "E Pluribus Unum" is incorporated in the design and appears above the Eagle on the reverse.

A circle of beads near the rim of a coin, placed there for decorative purposes. An example of a beaded coin is the 1793 Liberty Cap cent.
Bicentennial Coinage ...

new Liberty was seated on a rock, facing left, dressed in a Greek gown called a chiton. At her right the word LIBERTY is engraved on a scroll across the front of the shield of the United States. She holds in her left hand a pole with a liberty cap.

The sestertius above showing Liberty holding the pileus (liberty cap) is just a typical example. The few 'premium' items available for the reign include very rare medallions with the Colloseum reverse.

See also: Liberty, Coin, Mint, Half, Reverse