1795 $1 Draped Bust, Centered MS(PCGS#6858)
1795 $1 Draped Bust, Centered MS (PCGS#6858)
Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 3096
- 等级
- AU55
- 价格
- 171,377
- 详细说明
- BB Die State III. A lively, exceptionally lustrous example of both the type and die pairing, this endearing early dollar makes a lovely impression. Traces of a semi-prooflike finish remain, the surfaces particularly reflective under direct lighting. The strike is well centered with most design elements sharply to fully rendered. There are neither adjustment marks nor post-production blemishes. Lightly toned overall in attractive pearl-gray. The obverse die break in Liberty's hair is small, appearing as a rounded triangular lump, and without the vertical projection that developed later. This is a rare die state for the variety, of which Q. David Bowers (2013) reports, "I have seen just one coin."<p>The Centered Bust variety is the second of just two of this type made from 1795-dated dies. The first, BB-51, has the portrait shifted slightly to the left. While numismatists have traditionally accepted an identical rating of Rarity-2 for these two varieties, Harry E. Salyards assigns a revised rating of Rarity-3- to BB-52 in his 2022 reference <em>Eagle Poised on a Bank of Clouds</em>. The author's assessment squares with your cataloger's (JLA's) experience, for appreciably more examples of the BB-51 Off-Center Bust variety have crossed his desk over the last 25 years.