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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lkeigwin, post: 1272876, member: 30400&quot;]This isn&#039; a series I collect (as if I could afford to!) but maybe this will help.</p><p><br /></p><p>Only one die pair was used for 1794. So there are no varieties. Most have adjustment marks on one or both sides. One (or more?) has a central &quot;plug&quot; on the obverse...silver added before striking in order to bring the weight up to tolerance. Many have significant weakness on the left obverse and left reverse due to dies that shifted (i.e., no longer parallel).</p><p><br /></p><p>A flowing hair dollar can only be 1794 or 1795. After that the Mint released draped hair dollars. If the dateless dollar is clearly a flowing hair, and has three leaves on the branch directly under eagles&#039;s wings then it is a 1795. If there are two leaves it could be a 1794 or 1795.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best source of information on the 1794 dollar is probably &quot;The Flowing Hair Silver Dollars of 1794 - An Historical and Population Census Study&quot; by Martin A. Logies. Walter Breen&#039;s encyclopedia is probably very useful too.</p><p>Lance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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