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[L#0520] 1798 HE $1 NGC AU58

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[L#0520] 1798 HE $1 NGC AU58
With heavy frost flow lines on each side from well-worn dies, the fields and devices very choice for this issue. Robert Scot originally made his adaptation of the Great Seal of the United States in 1796, for the quarter eagles intended to be issued alluding to Tennessee's admission to the Union as the sixteenth state (they have 16 stars above eagle). Following a practice which remained traditional at the Mint as late as 1915, he made working hubs of the same design for other denominations: half eagles and eagles in 1y797, dimes and dollars in 1798, half dimes in 1800, half dollars in 1801, quarter dollars in 1804. All these contained the same heraldic blunder in which the arrows and olive branch are switched (therefore, in the wrong claws).