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The classical energy is not defined uniquely; you can
shift it by a gauge transformation. Therefore you can
always pick a gauge so as to /make/ the classical energy
equal to mc^2 -- which an awful lot of people have done --
and it would even be consistent with the correspondence
principle. However, you could equally well make it equal
to (mc^2 / 2) or any other thing that suits your fancy."