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Just for fun #2: Guess the date on this bust dollar #2.

ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
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One of mine. This should be an easy one.image

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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1798
    Guessing completely out of the blue though

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  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    1794

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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1796

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  • BustmanBustman Posts: 1,911 ✭
    1795
  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    This is one of those hard berries questions isn't it? Ok, I'll go get the Cardinal Coll. Catelog-----image
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  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    My guess-head of 1795, 13 berries, 3 leaves, BB-27
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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1795 7 berries left, 6 right. Reverse J B5, B6, or B12
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    17 something, oh yeah, easy.
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    it could only be 1794 or 1795, right? I'll go with the latter, although you have a 1794 too, don't you ER?

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  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1795
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The reverse of the 1794 is slightly different.

    There are differences in the leaves at the top, above the eagle, and there are no three leaf varieties in 1794, which were all struck by the same die pair.
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice strike for a 1794. image
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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Thank you again for participating.image Perhaps I shouldn't have said "easy". It might be easy for me, who's making up the question, or the experts, but might not be so for those with only a passing interest in bust dollars. I like to do this, as an education for nonexperts such as myself, and maybe spark somebody's interest in early coinage.
    Anyway, image to all who guessed 1795. I didn't intend it to be a die variety guessing (that's just too diificult), but DNADave gave the the best answer.
    First, looking at this reverse, the only possible dates are 1794 - 1798. But then, paying attention to the eagle and what it's standing on, it cannot be anything other than the flowing hair type (the draped bust small eagle is entirely different, and it stands on a puff of cloud, not a piece of rock as in the flowing hair type). Next, you look at the 3 leaves under the eagle and BINGO, it's a 1795. Can't be 1794, 'cause it has 2 leaves underneath. Another difference between the 1794 eagle and the 1795 is that the former is slightly skinnier, and its left wing's angle at the body is more sharply defined.
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  • arlea1957arlea1957 Posts: 817
    Yea that's what i thought too

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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭


    << <i>Yea that's what i thought too

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    At least you read it.image

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