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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 896912, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;m kind of surprised Cardinal bought it since he sold off his dollar set.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree though he is a heck of a nice guy.&nbsp; I bought a hardbound copy of his book on the 1794 dollars and I was surprised when he included as a gift a hardbound copy of his other book on the rest of the early dollars!&nbsp; As far as I know he never published that book in softbound like he did the 1794 book, and the number of hardbound copies produced was only 20 copies.</p><p><br /></p><p>It IS the earliest die state known and the only one known of that die state, but I seriously doubt it was the first one struck.&nbsp; Striking the dollar was a high prestige event for the country and it would not surprise me at all for them to have polished the dies to create a specimen strike as this coin indicates was done.&nbsp; But for such a momentous coin I seriously doubt they would have chosen a planchet that had been holed and plugged and then adjusted down to the correct weight.&nbsp; They would have chosen a proper weight planchet that didn&#039;t have to be adjusted.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin might very well be Number 2, but I don&#039;t think it was Number 1.&nbsp; It might not even be number 2 if they made more than one piece for presentation.&nbsp; Possibly number one after whatever presentation pieces were made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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