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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26665431, member: 10461&quot;]<b><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">United States: 1799 silver Draped Bust dollar</font></font></b></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">NGC VF30. <a href="https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/1886300-001/30/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/1886300-001/30/" rel="nofollow">Cert. #1886300-001</a>.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.numista.com/23359" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/23359" rel="nofollow">Numista-23359</a>, Krause-Mishler-32, Bowers-Borckardt-162.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Mintage: 423,515.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex-Stacks Bowers Galleries Spring 2023 Auction, <a href="https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-11E4VG/1799-draped-bust-silver-dollar-bb-162-b-6-rarity-4-vf-30-ngc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-11E4VG/1799-draped-bust-silver-dollar-bb-162-b-6-rarity-4-vf-30-ngc" rel="nofollow">Lot 6582</a>, 23 March 2023.&nbsp; Purchased in the slab.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The Stacks Bowers auction lot description:</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><i>&quot;A boldly toned example with underlying cobalt blue and reddish-gold to dominant charcoal-gray. The in hand appearance is uncommonly smooth for the assigned grade, if a tad glossy in texture. One of perhaps just 300 to 500 survivors from this die pairing (per Bowers, 2013), and a desirable coin for a circulated type set. BB Die State III-IV (intermediate die state).&quot;</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This lovely early United States dollar is of the Heraldic Eagle reverse type struck from 1798 to 1804.&nbsp; Coins of this type dated 1804 are one of the most famous US rarities, though the ones bearing that date were actually restrikes struck decades later.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">For my Draped Bust dollar type coin, I wanted a date from the 1700s.&nbsp; I was also after a coin with exactly this sort of &quot;<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-a-circcam-you-ask-look-and-see-and-post-yours.288335/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-a-circcam-you-ask-look-and-see-and-post-yours.288335/">Circulation Cameo</a>&quot; toning.&nbsp; I paid a lofty premium for this piece- <i>way</i> beyond published price guide values- but I had to, in order to beat the competition for it in the auction.&nbsp; I&#039;m seldom so cavalier about &quot;overpaying&quot; for a coin, and I&#039;m likely &quot;underwater&quot; in this one for a long time to come, but I suppose that doesn&#039;t matter so much.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad to have it, and it is my favorite US coin in my collection.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1701330[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701331[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701332[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701333[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701334[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #ffffff">386750</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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