1798 $1 Small Eagle, 13 Stars MS(PCGS#6867)
1798 $1 Small Eagle, 13 Stars MS (PCGS#6867)
August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 6305
- 等级
- XF40
- 价格
- 65,536
- 详细说明
- 1798 Draped Bust Silver Dollar. Small Eagle. BB-82, B-1. Rarity-3. 13 Stars. EF-40 (PCGS). This warmly toned example combines a pewter-gay obverse with a lighter reverse dressed in sandy-silver. Both sides reveal more vivid undertones of lilac-blue and champagne-apricot as the surfaces dip into a light. A handsome piece for circulated type purposes, free of individually distracting marks and well defined at the EF level despite some isolated softness of strike at Liberty's bosom and the eagle's body. Outnumbered by its identically dated Heraldic Eagle counterpart almost six to one, the 1798 Small Eagle dollar has long been popular among numismatists. While only two die pairs were employed for this design, the issue demonstrates the importance of die sequence and die state analysis. The BB-82 - the more available of the two Small Eagle varieties - shares a reverse die with the earlier 1797 BB-73 dollar and the obverse with the later 1798 BB-91 Heraldic Eagle variety. The other variety (BB-81) uses two older dies, including an obverse die started in 1796 but not completed until 1798 and a reverse first used three years earlier. Salyards Die State I. Provenance: From the Legacy Collection. Earlier from Heritage's Long Beach Signature Auction of September 2008, lot 2385. PCGS# 6867. NGC ID: 24X5. Click here for certification details from PCGS.