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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;giorgio11, post: 3222335, member: 17094&quot;]I don&#039;t usually buy &quot;problem children&quot; but this 1799/8 Bust dollar really hit my sweet spot. It&#039;s VG Details - Cleaned PCGS with amazing color. I have always wanted a 1799 dollar since I was a little kid (many moons ago now) and couldn&#039;t afford the $300 that one I saw in Titche&#039;s department store (millennials--a long time ago, department stores had stamp and coin shops in them) would have cost. I was a nice VF as I recall, today it would of course cost much more.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>13 Stars Obverse, B-2, BB-143. </b>This coin is also the rarest of the three known 1799/8 overdate die pairings, according to the Bowers-Borckardt silver dollar reference, <i>The Encyclopedia of United States Silver Dollars 1794–1804.</i> The obverse, shared with the BB-141 and BB-142 die combinations, shows the diagnostic 1799/8 with the last 9 very close to the bust, 13 stars closely spaced, and LIBERTY widely spaced. (Curiously, this obverse die was not used to strike 1798-dated silver dollars before it was overdated.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse die was used to strike BB-155 silver dollars (early state) and later, the BB-142 and BB-143 pairings. The reverse also shows 13 stars, with a diagnostic die crack from the border down through the curved part of D. A star touches the lower point of the eagle&#039;s beak and just barely enters the mouth. A star point is above the left side of the upright of U in the motto.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Die State: </b>Bowers-Borckardt Die State II, lowest hair curl partially effaced, flaws below E and RT, crack from bust tip to rim, reverse shows crack from rim to D, wispy crack connecting ATES OF, wing, and top of AME.</p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]839236[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Kind regards,</p><p><br /></p><p>George[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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