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Your early-dollar set
Every date and type of the series — 15 in all, of which 12 form the set a collector can plan to complete. Tick what you own; everything saves privately in this browser, no account required.
Before you read the table
That column says DELIVERED, not MINTAGE
The number in the register is a DELIVERY, not a dated mintage — the Mint counted coins handed to the Treasurer in a calendar year, not coins bearing a date. Where the record does not attribute a delivery to a single issue, this table shows no figure rather than a split someone invented.
So 8 of the 15 rows carry a figure and 7 show “—”. The blanks are not missing research: 1795's two portraits share one delivery of 203,033 and no record distinguishes them; 1798's two eagles share one delivery of 327,536 and no record distinguishes them; and no delivery was ever attributed to a coin dated 1804 at all. Each issue page carries both the recorded delivery and the trade's dated attribution, labelled with who made it.
On the three CROWN rows
The 1804 Class I, II and III are in this roster because the series' identity requires them, not because they are a completion target. Sixteen 1804 dollars exist across the three classes as of 2026; six of those are institutionally held and will not trade again, and the unique Class II has no market at all.
A date-and-type set is 12 coins. Filter to OBTAINABLE and SCARCE to see it.
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The 15-issue checklist
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| Own | Mint | Class | Market | Note | ||
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| 1794 | P | 1,758 | KEY | — | Delivered October 15, 1794. Not a Mint line item — a reconstruction that satisfies the registry's combined 204,791 for 1794 and 1795. | |
| 1795 Flowing Hair | P | — | OBTAINABLE | — | 203,033 delivered in 1795 across BOTH types; no record distinguishes them. PCGS allocates 160,295 here by judgement. | |
| 1795 Draped Bust | P | — | OBTAINABLE | — | The new "fillet head", introduced late in 1795. Included in the year's 203,033; PCGS allocates 42,738 here. | |
| 1796 | P | 72,920 | SCARCE | — | The Mint says 72,920 and Venn confirmed "perfect accord" in 1927; the trade carries 79,920. A transposed digit, recorded and not reconciled. | |
| 1797 | P | 7,776 | SCARCE | — | The lowest delivery of any regular-issue year — and the series' loudest survival anomaly. | |
| 1798 Small Eagle | P | — | KEY | — | 327,536 delivered in 1798 across both eagle types; the split is not recorded. The last year of the small eagle. | |
| 1798 Heraldic Eagle | P | — | OBTAINABLE | — | Included in the 1798 delivery of 327,536. The heraldic eagle arrives mid-year and stays to the end of the series. | |
| 1799 | P | 423,515 | OBTAINABLE | — | The series' high-water mark. Snowden printed 429,515; every Mint printing this Archive holds gives 423,515. | |
| 1800 | P | 220,920 | OBTAINABLE | — | Home of AMERICAI and the Dotted Date — two die-damage varieties, not engraving errors. | |
| 1801 | P | 54,454 | SCARCE | — | PCGS also recognises an 1801 restrike proof — 6 known, R-9.7 — from the Mint's later restrike era. | |
| 1802 | P | 41,650 | SCARCE | — | The quarterly abstract sums exactly: 9,841 + 957 + 8,710 + 22,142. A restrike proof also exists — 10 known, R-9.5. | |
| 1803 | P | 66,064 | OBTAINABLE | — | 85,634 − 66,064 = 19,570, exactly the 1804 delivery. The last regular date of the series, and the one carrying its most interesting arithmetic. | |
| 1804 Class I | P | — | CROWN | — | Zero dollars dated 1804 were struck in 1804. Eight Class I coins are known as of 2026. | |
| 1804 Class II | P | — | CROWN | — | Unique, plain-edge, 381.5 grains, in the National Numismatic Collection. No market, and there never will be one. | |
| 1804 Class III | P | — | CROWN | — | Seven known as of 2026 — six until the James A. Stack coin was published in 2025. |
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There is no melt column here. Every early dollar contains the same 371¼ grains of pure silver by statute, and no early dollar has ever been sold for it — the cheapest genuine coin in this series trades in four figures. A live metal price would be the same number on every row and a floor under none of them.
Using the checklist well
Decide about the 1794 first, not last. In most series the keys are a problem you defer. Here the 1794 is a different order of commitment from everything else in the set — an estimated 150 across all grades, and the three most recent public sales at $10,016,875, $6,600,000 and $4,500,000. Sort by Delivered and it sits at the top of the table for a reason. A set built without it is a perfectly respectable set; a set built towards it should know that from the first coin.
Treat 1795 and 1798 as two coins each. Both years carry a design change mid-year — the Draped Bust portrait arrives late in 1795, the heraldic eagle replaces the small eagle mid-1798 — and a date-and-type set needs both. This is also why those four rows show no delivery figure: the Mint recorded the year, not the type.
Filter by class to see the shape of the set. OBTAINABLE gives you the six dates that come to market; SCARCE adds the four that take patience; KEY is the two that gate it; 1804 CROWN is the chapter to read rather than the coins to chase. There is no COMMON filter, because this series has no common dates — see the calibration table for what “obtainable” actually means here.
Then go one level deeper. The date-and-type set is the beginning of this series, not the end of it. The collecting unit the market actually trades is the die marriage, and a single 1798 offered thirty obverses paired with seventeen reverses — see die marriages & attribution.
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What actually fits an early dollar
39.5 mm · nominal 39–40, struck on an open collar — individual coins vary
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Air-Tite I, 40 mm ring
Rings come in whole millimetres; 39.5 mm sits between sizes and takes the next one up
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Measure before you buy. The Act of April 2, 1792 fixed the dollar's weight and fineness and said nothing about its diameter. These were struck on an open collar, and surviving coins run roughly 39–40 mm — so 39.5 mm is a nominal figure for the type, not a measurement of your coin. Caliper it before you order a direct-fit shell; a ring type tolerates the variation, a direct fit does not.
Derived from the coin's diameter against Air-Tite's published model chart — the full table, the materials grades and the six things that destroy coins are in the Supply Room. Ordered by fit and archival safety, never by commission. Product links are affiliate links; what they pay has no input into what appears here or in what order.
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Delivery figures are the United States Mint's own registry (S1, S3, S4, S5); the 1794 and 1795 figures are Venn's 1927 reconstruction from the registry's combined total (S28) and are flagged as reconstructions wherever they appear. Dated attributions are PCGS CoinFacts' (S31), observed 2026-08-23, and are never merged with the delivery record.