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Issue RecordOBTAINABLEPhiladelphia89.24% Silver1 of 15 issues
1798 Heraldic Eagle Draped Bust, Heraldic Eagle Dollar
Included in the 1798 delivery of 327,536. The heraldic eagle arrives mid-year and stays to the end of the series.
1798 Heraldic Eagle · Draped Bust, Heraldic Eagle DollarNATIONAL NUMISMATIC COLLECTION · SMITHSONIAN · PUBLIC DOMAIN · PRODUCTION-CLEARED
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The numbers, and what kind of numbers they are
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RECORDED DELIVERY
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The Mint recorded what the Chief Coiner DELIVERED in a calendar year, not what it struck bearing a date. Where the registry combines years, the split is a reconstruction and the class says so.
DATED ATTRIBUTION
287,536
What the trade assigns to coins bearing this date. A modern allocation by an outside authority, not a federal record.
ESTIMATED SURVIVORS
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No STRUCTURED census exists for this series yet — not because none has been published, but because the published estimates live in the key-date prose and were never carried as figures with their own attribution and date. Retyping them here would be authoring data from downstream text, so the slot stays empty until the research leg structures them.
Provenance · RECORDED DELIVERY
FIGURENo figure — see below
CLASSOBSERVED — read directly from the document
LOCATORp.3
METHODThe registry records a delivery for the year but does not attribute it to this issue. No figure is shown rather than a split someone invented. Included in the 1798 delivery of 327,536. The heraldic eagle arrives mid-year and stays to the end of the series.
CAVEATThe Mint recorded what the Chief Coiner DELIVERED in a calendar year, not what it struck bearing a date. Where the registry combines years, the split is a reconstruction and the class says so.
Provenance · DATED ATTRIBUTION
FIGURE287,536
CLASSESTIMATED — a third party's estimate, attributed
SOURCEPCGS CoinFacts ↗
ATTRIBUTED TOPCGS CoinFacts
METHODIncluded in the 1798 delivery of 327,536. The heraldic eagle arrives mid-year and stays to the end of the series.
CAVEATWhat the trade assigns to coins bearing this date. A modern allocation by an outside authority, not a federal record.
Provenance · ESTIMATED SURVIVORS
FIGURENo figure — see below
CLASSSPECULATIVE — proposed, not established
SOURCE—
METHODIncluded in the 1798 delivery of 327,536. The heraldic eagle arrives mid-year and stays to the end of the series.
CAVEATNo STRUCTURED census exists for this series yet — not because none has been published, but because the published estimates live in the key-date prose and were never carried as figures with their own attribution and date. Retyping them here would be authoring data from downstream text, so the slot stays empty until the research leg structures them.
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Specifications
SpecificationValue
DENOMINATIONDollar
DESIGNERRobert Scot
COMPOSITION89.24% silver, 10.76% copper — 371¼ grains of pure silver in 416 grains of standard silver
WEIGHT26.96 g
SILVER CONTENT0.77344 ozt
DIAMETERNot fixed by statute. The Act of April 2, 1792 specifies the dollar's weight and fineness and says nothing about its diameter; surviving coins run to roughly 39–40 mm.
EDGELettered — HUNDRED CENTS ONE DOLLAR OR UNIT
MINTPhiladelphia only — the first and, until 1838, the sole United States mint
MINT MARKNone. No branch mint existed, so no early dollar carries a mint mark.
DIE MARRIAGESthe series' largest year — 30 obverses with 17 reverses, per Haseltine
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From the book
Chapters that cite a document this coin's figures rest on. The same source id, reached from the other direction.
CHAPTER ONEThe First Silver
A shop with horses, a statute about to expire, and 1,758 coins on an October afternoon — where every early dollar comes from.CHAPTER TWOThe Carousel
Accepted by count, exported by the crate: the banker's habit that consumed ninety-seven percent of the series.CHAPTER FOURTwelve Marriages
A teaching set, ranked by lesson rather than price: attribute these twelve and you can attribute the series.CHAPTER FIVEThe Ledger and the Date
The Mint counted deliveries, never dates — and confusing the two columns manufactured the most famous coin in America.
A shop with horses, a statute about to expire, and 1,758 coins on an October afternoon — where every early dollar comes from.CHAPTER TWOThe Carousel
Accepted by count, exported by the crate: the banker's habit that consumed ninety-seven percent of the series.CHAPTER FOURTwelve Marriages
A teaching set, ranked by lesson rather than price: attribute these twelve and you can attribute the series.CHAPTER FIVEThe Ledger and the Date
The Mint counted deliveries, never dates — and confusing the two columns manufactured the most famous coin in America.
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The primary record
Every document behind the figures above. Where OunceDesk holds a copy, the row opens it.
Mint Report 1803 (American State Papers, Finance)
Held in the Archive · behind recorded delivery
Held in the Archive · behind recorded delivery
PCGS CoinFacts
External authority — not held by OunceDesk · behind dated attribution
External authority — not held by OunceDesk · behind dated attribution
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