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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 952028, member: 66&quot;]It&#039;s too bad the berries on the left side of the wreath are so far gone.&nbsp; The very long nearly vertical stem on the berry left of the C in CENT is rather distinctive.&nbsp; There is only one reverse in the 1798&#039;s with type 2 hair that has a similar berry, and on it the berry is well above the level of the C.&nbsp; We can ignore all the earlier dates because they have type 1 hair.</p><p><br /></p><p>On thing that makes me feel good about this coin is the highest wave of hair is to the right of center of the R above it.&nbsp; There are only about eleven varieties in the whole draped bust series where that is true.&nbsp; Six in 1798, three in 1799, and one in 1800.&nbsp; The others can be ignored because they aren&#039;t from the same hubbed reverse die.&nbsp; So we can check for the possibility of an altered date.</p><p><br /></p><p>The six 1798&#039;s are S180, 181, 182, 183, 186, and 187.&nbsp; 187 can be eliminated because the top left berry droops down heavily.&nbsp; 182 and 183 can be eliminated because the last A almost touches the ribbon and they have a heavy die cut from the ribbon to the center of the A.&nbsp; 180 almost always has a heavy rim break over T3 and no stem to the berry below M.&nbsp; Scratch 180.&nbsp; 181 has a strong die crack on the obverse from 9:00 to the curl below the ribbons.&nbsp; That just leaves 186 as a possibility.&nbsp; That could be a problem because its reverse was also used in 1799 on S-188.</p><p><br /></p><p>So we have eliminated all the possible 1798&#039;s except S-186.&nbsp; We will come back to it in a minute.</p><p><br /></p><p>The three in 1799 are NC-1, 188, and 189.&nbsp; NC-1 and S-188 both have the 9&#039;s widely spaced, the subject coin does not.&nbsp; So that eliminates NC-1 and S-188.&nbsp; While 188 was being struck the reverse die cracks heavily in an arc from below the fraction to the right through the E in AMERICA to the rim.&nbsp; Then it was used for the 1798 S-186 so the 186 always shows this heavy crack.&nbsp; No crack on the subject coin so that eliminates 186 as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>We are down to two varieties left S-189 and 1800 S-198.</p><p><br /></p><p>On 1800 S-198, LIBERTY is down close to the hair.&nbsp; That is not the case with the subject coin.&nbsp; By process of elimination we come down to 1799 S-189[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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