The Guide Book provides a mintage of 139,690 coins for all varieties of the 1795-dated issue. Along with C-5b, C-6a and C-6b, C-5a represents the Plain Edge, No Pole variety. Most examples are attributed as C-6a, however, with C-5a considerably scarcer. The estimate population for all four attributions is 900 to 2,850 coins in all grades, though just 200 to 600 coins from the C-5a variety remain . The C-5a die pairing is also conditionally challenging, with the vast majority of survivors in lower grades through VF, many also impaired.

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the D. Brent Pogue Part III Auction, where it realized $235,000. Please note that this example is overstruck on a Talbot, Allum & Lee Cent.