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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1679543, member: 24544&quot;]The 1803 does look like s245 to me as well.&nbsp; The 3 is embedded in the bust, and the leaf adjacent to D in UNITED is by the upright.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quick definition, a variety denotes a specific pairing of obverse and reverse dies.&nbsp; Within a given obverse/reverse die pairing (variety) there are different die states.&nbsp; Here die state refers to the condition of the dies not to a different variety.</p><p><br /></p><p>The S245 is an interesting in a lot of ways. It is the pairing of Sheldon&#039;s obverse 3 and reverse C, but Sheldon notes his obverse 3 and obverse 2 (s245) are the same.&nbsp; The s245, which was struck first, had multiple clashes with the reverse die (different die states) leaving a lot of damage.&nbsp; The obverse die was taken out of service and ground down to remove the damage, but in the process lost a lot of hair detail, specifically the strands above the head and behind the ear.&nbsp; This obverse die was than used to strike s244 with a different reverse. The damage on s245 is responsible for it being called the &#039;Unicorn&#039; variety, while the s244 is know by it&#039;s diagnostic &#039;unfinished&#039; hair.&nbsp; Last little bit of interest, the 1803 reverse C used on the s245 is also the 1802 reverse M used on the 1802 s242, which helps determine that s245 was probably one of the first 1803s while the s242 was one of the last 1802s struck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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