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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2569272, member: 1892&quot;]Excellent; it&#039;s inappropriate to draw firm conclusions based on one set of plainly insufficient images. There is a real possibility that you&#039;ll find either perfectly acceptable and as original as one might expect of coins which did their full duty in commerce. Predicated, of course, on your confidence in your ability to evaluate the coins appropriately.</p><p><br /></p><p>Forced to choose between the two, I would pick the 1799 as of greater interest. It&#039;s a very late die state although of a more common variety than the 1800, although there is a yet-later stage where crumbling develops under the eagle&#039;s chin (check for that feature in person; I see it beginning on this one). There cannot be too awful many at that stage of the die&#039;s life. Q. David considers the survivor number to be between 600-1100, with most of them being later die stages.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s of added interest to me that this one (along with B-12, the previous use of the reverse die) have no reverse berries. This reverse was used with 4 different obverses (one of them <i>twice</i>), and during that time the berries were lapped off of the die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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