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Wife found this gem the other day.as ive been researching and cleaning up real slow and easy im noticing tool marks 180 degrees apart and doing some research theres a gripped edge 1797.Theres some written info but i cant find hardly any picture references.
From the link below:
...This variety features a plain edge on the coin. This means the edge doesn't have any groves but is perfectly smooth unlike the gripped edge variety. An example of the gripped edge is depicted below:
Even if modern clad coins are recovered there are some mint goof ups. The other day jkline hit a pocket spill of three Presidential Series dollar coins. Wasnt until I was looking them up in the RedBook did I realize there were some minted without the edge inscriptions (thus worth a tad more but later on that will increase). Good catch on finding that tiny abnormality or mint difference!
