PCGS Grades First New 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar Variety Discovered In Nearly A Hundred Years

PCGS - New 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar Graded by PCGS as an F15 and Designated a "Discovery Coin."

It still pays to scrutinize all coins for something new or unusual, even those belonging to a series as well studied as the Flowing Hair Half Dollar. Struck by the United States Mint from 1794 through 1795, Flowing Hair Half Dollars have been the lifelong subject of study for numismatic specialists for well more than a century.



The coin has been profiled by coin scholars in journals, books, and magazines of all numismatic manner, and serving as an authoritative review of the series and its many varieties is a tome known as Early Half Dollar Die Varieties 1794-1836. Originally published in 1967 by Al C. Overton, the book has been updated over the years by Donald L. Parsley and now encompasses nearly 700 pages of knowledge and information as compiled over many decades of exhaustive research.

Now the iconic book may need another revision. A new die marriage has been attributed on the 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar and is formally designated as Overton 133 - the 33rd distinct die marriage or die variety officially cataloged across all 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollars. The discovery coin was recently graded as such by PCGS and represents a major milestone in the numismatic hobby for various reasons.

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