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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1970552, member: 66&quot;]They CAN prove the $10M 1794 dollar was one of the first struck.&nbsp; What they can&#039;t prove is that it was THE first one struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>They know it was one of the first because it is from the earliest known die stage, and in fact is the only piece known from that die stage.&nbsp; Because the coin has PL surfaces they claim it was a presentation strike and therefore the first one struck.&nbsp; I argue that if they polished the dies to make a presentation strike out of the first coin (Which would make sense, this WAS a big deal.)&nbsp; The dies would still be polished and the next few pieces would also have PL surfaces.&nbsp; What argues AGAINST that coin being the first is; If you were going to all this trouble to make a ceremonial presentation piece out of the first coin struck, what kind of planchet would you chose to strike it on?&nbsp; They had over 2,000 planchets on hand.&nbsp; Wouldn&#039;t you chose one of the proper weight and as blemish free as possible?&nbsp; The planchet for the $10M so called presentation first struck dollar was under weight, holed, had a silver plug put in it making it over weight, and then scraped on both sides with a file to adjust it back down to the proper weight.&nbsp; (The plug and adjustment marks are both still visible on the &quot;presentation&quot; coin.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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