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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 8264945, member: 101855&quot;]The U.S. Mint drove additional metal into the planchets to increase their weight during 1794 and part of 1795, not to fill a hole that someone drove into the planchets. </p><p><br /></p><p>I might be wrong, but I believe that these &quot;plugged pieces&quot; were limited to the Flowing Hair type dollars which were struck a few months earlier that these pieces. I am not aware of any Draped Bust dollars that had plugs for weight augmentation. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Specimen Strike of the 1794 dollar, which is graded SP-66 and has changed hands for $12 million, has such a plug. Look at the area on Ms. Liberty&#039;s neck and jaw. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1458105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1458106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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