1795 Dollar

Absolutely beautiful! I'm recapturing the passion of my numismatic past and I've been immediately drawn to the Flowing Hair / Draped Bust dollars as an area I'm going to focus on. Thanks for sharing!

 

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Not as bad as some I've seen.

 

Nor me...and it shouldn't bother the TPGs, either. Yes, a very nice piece, full of history...much too much and nice to not receive a straight grade. What can possibly be expected for 225 years of life but to show a small shallow 'X'...done in no obvious way to alter or otherwise deface, defraud, etc...? Such hypocrites are the TPGs who straight-grade certain of the most gawd-awful stuff you can't believe (if for the right sender...don't you kid yourselves!) and then relegate decent, handsome coins like this to "graffiti...details" slabs. Understand it doesn't always matter (too much to a lot) as in this case, but it's the principle and IMO it stinks, time and again.

 

Randy, simply put, that's a WOW coin!!!!! Congrats man!!!!!

 

Agreed. I have seen some pieces, most often early gold, which were absolutely hideous.

 

Yours looks good. The one I was comparing my 1795 to had file marks deeply cut through the bust. Granted it was done at the mint but, the coin looked damaged. Yours is very acceptable. Picture your coin with those two deeper cuts in the bust times 10 across the bust.

 

Cool piece and the so called X just gives it more of a character or personality to it , imo

 

I always wondered why some coins would have that done to them. When I see it on a large cent I figure some kid got bored at school. When I see it on a dollar. I wonder if it was done to track it or again if someone was bored.

 

Very nice. Congratulations.

 

I like to imagine the scenario as well.

For Randy’s coin, I landed on:

A butcher in Manhattan was buying a large shipment of beef from Long Island. The middle man making the trek to acquire it was a successful merchant with good references, but he wanted 1/2 payment up front.

The butcher agreed, but said if the meat was spoiled upon his return he expected his cold hard American silver dollars back, not chopped up random denominations or paper. He marked X’s in each to drive home his point.

 

We think alike. Holding a coin for me is as imaginative as reading a good book.

 

I am pretty sure these X's are fairly common on older coinage because it was a quick and easy way at the time to check for counterfeits. ...kind of like when you spend a big bill and the cashier marks it with those markers.

 

Pretty cool. Looks great.

 

To me that makes the coin more desirable than if it was random graffiti done by someone with too much time on their hands.