What is in center of coin?

What is the hole in the center of this 1795 S1/2 Dollar? Are they all like this?

 

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I believe what you are referring to is called a plug but your pic is hard to tell?

 

Looks as if someone deliberately cut out the eagle. How?
Damaged coin

 

Cut out are we looking at the same coin?

 

Don't you see it? Where the eagle is supposed to be it looks incused into the coin.

 

Looks ok to me? I think its just the way he took the photo look at the eagles head if it were incuse the edge would have a shadow but you can clearly see the light exposing the raised edge of the head?

 

Got it. Ok.
That's a new coin for me. Plugged hole is probably correct. Thanks.

 

I had this coin slabbed by NGC and they didn't see it. edited?

 

Would you please show the slab or at least the NGC verification number?

 

I don't see a silver plug on the OP coin, or at least the photo isn't good enough to show it. I was thinking he was referring to the raised dot near the top of the eagles right wing just about where it joins the body. That is a center dot created by a compass they used for making scribe lines, or layout lines on the surface of the die to help in placement of the lettering.

 

NGC #4061099-005. I can see it with my naked eyes; it's a hole with a plug. A dealer pointed it out to me. I did alert NGC, but it came back O-104.

 

If you're referring to the dot, have a look at some other examples of O-104. You'll then understand why Conder posted what he did, and why NGC said nothing about it.

 

Yeah probably the more correct answer, its hard to see with that photo though and my thoughts went to the plug because it literally is a whole in the center lol....