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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 8669118, member: 101855&quot;]The 1797 C-1 is the most common variety for the year. Part of the reason for that is that the mint pushed the dies to the limit. There are fair number of these coins known with missing details despite that the fact they grade VF or better.</p><p><br /></p><p>The variety is neat because it&#039;s a blundered die. The die maker, probably Robert Scott, punched in the &quot;1&quot; too high and saw the mistake. He punched in the rest of the numbers correctly. Note that he probably punched in some little tick marks above the &quot;7&quot;s to make sure he would get it right. </p><p><br /></p><p>Dare I post this? I have owned this one for over 30 years. I acquired it at a NENA (New England Numismatic Association) conference that was held in Boston in the 1980s. As I recall I traded a bunch of common date silver dollars for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1520384[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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