I got this one at the FUN show. A neat variety; it has 3 or 4 "wavy lines in front of the face," the result of die breaks. A decent low-grade example. Scarce.

A surprisingly elusive variety. It is a Rarity-3, but it took awhile to find a nice one. (Actually an EAC buddy did the work for me and emailed me a pic of this coin he had just purchased and offered it to me, since it had been on my wantlist forever. I immediately accepted!)

I bought this off a fixed price list - it's one that isn't seen too often, being a Rarity-5 coin (30-75 known.) After noting the various die breaks and clashes, it's evident that not too many of these were made. The obverse has a break in the left obverse field through the date and has reverse breaks through the fraction to the right rim and one through "TE" of UNITED. The most spectacular feature is the die clash on the reverse, where the tip of the bust caused major damage to the reverse die at "OF". A neat variety.

One of the common 1801s. I bought it because it was just a nice VG. Reverse is a bit nicer than the obverse. Distinct because the 100 in the fraction is very close together.

I've owned several examples of this variety, this being the nicest by far. Most of these come well-worn, porous, bent, you name it. Except for a very old obverse scrape (which blends in perfectly with the coin's original color,) this was a nice 'un. All three errors are bold. The three errors all occur on the reverse. They are: Missing left stem, 1/000 fraction, and "U" in UNITED punched upside down, then right side up, so it looks like "II". This specimen is a medium die state, with a die crack that starts at the bottom of the reverse rim, runs thru the second "0" in the fraction, then thru the ribbon and thru "UNI" in UNITED before exiting the rim at about K8. Later die states have a second arc-shaped crack above and parallel to the first.

I got this from an EAC friend that collects this variety by die state. This is a late die state, with advanced reverse cracks and a cud at "AT" of "STATES". I recently got a Canon G2 digital camera, and this is the first coin I took with it, strictly on AUTO setting (haven't read the manual yet.) Not too shabby for a first attempt, and it captures the good (detail) and the bad (porosity) of the coin quite well, as well as the color.

I got this one off of a fixed price list. One of the major varieties, the fraction was originally punched as 1/000, then a 1 punched over the first 0. A fairly common variety, but I had trouble finding one for a long time.

A variety I acquired about the same time as the S-214. An EAC friend offered it to me. A nice coin despite the obvious pits. This coin originally came out of a Superior auction in September of 2002.

One of the 1/000 error fraction varieties. I bought this one not because of the 1/000 but because it seems to be a very late die state, with a nice cud at the tip of the bust. Haven't seen too many of these. The 1/000 diagnostic shows, barely.

I got this one off of Auction Universe. It's a scarcer Late Die State with a heavy reverse rim break over "ME". The dealer I purchased it from estimates that perhaps 1 out of 4 S-224s exhibits this rim break. There's another smaller die break over the top of "F" that travels upward to the left over "O". Neat die state.