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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;giorgio11, post: 1623454, member: 17094&quot;]That&#039;s what I inferred from the Legend e-mail I got this morning about their purchase. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the quote from Legend:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;We would like to thank the consignor, Martin Logies, for his tireless efforts in documenting the characteristics of this coin and every other 1794 dollar that was struck after it. His fantastic research into every known coin of the type and his book on the subject convinced us that this First Struck dollar is truly a National Treasure. Congratulations to him on a world’s record price realized.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Another possible way to determine first strike status, perhaps, is the presence/absence of the silver plugs and/or die state evidence. Perhaps something happened on the first strike of the dies that affected/appears on all subsequent coins? I&#039;m just guessing here because, again, I haven&#039;t read Mr. Logies&#039; work. </p><p><br /></p><p>Best Regards, :hail:</p><p><br /></p><p>George</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah: As I suspected, from the Stacks Bowers catalog, partial quote:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b>Die State: </b>This&nbsp; is the earliest die state seen, a perfect die state match to the copper&nbsp; pattern 1794 Dollar (Judd-19) now at the Smithsonian--which is believed&nbsp; to have been struck first to test the dies and coining press. The&nbsp; definition of Die State I includes notable differences that are seen on&nbsp; the third curl up from the bottom of Liberty&#039;s hair, which is longer and&nbsp; more defined here than on any subsequent specimen reported. The copper&nbsp; pattern and the present coin are the only two known from this die state.&nbsp; Die State II coins show considerable evidence of die clashing, later&nbsp; states have the clashing lapped off, weakening this curl and other&nbsp; devices a bit further. Later die states also show that the dies were not&nbsp; perfectly aligned, hence the left side of the struck coins is always&nbsp; weakly struck compared to the strike definition on the right side. Of&nbsp; the approximately 135 1794 silver dollars known, all but this example&nbsp; show evidence of clashing or die lapping designated as Die State II or&nbsp; higher, ...&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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