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Was watching this auction at StacksBowers' Rarities Night. It is a 1795 flowing hair dollar which is normally relatively common with a mintage of 160,295. However this coin is uncirculated [PCGS MS61] and has a silver plug, an indication that it was struck upon an underweight planchet that had to be drilled, holed and plugged with an overweight plug to bring it within tolerance. Only flowing hair silver dollars were plugged at the mint and only 4 uncirculated, plugged 1795 flowing hair silver dollar are known. The Cardinal specimen is the only known plugged silver dollar dated 1794. It was $22,000 until a couple days ago and thought I had a chance but it had a $170,000 bid [not including buyer's premium] reserve and it hammered just above the reserve tonight. Beautiful coin nevertheless. Stacks also sold the finest known plugged 1795 flowing hair dollar in 2015 which is graded PCGS MS 65+ for $705,000. The finest known and unique 1794 Cardinal flowing hair dollar is graded PCGS SP66 and was also sold by Stacks in 2013 for over $10 million. https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/l...g-ms-61-pcgsIN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
11/14/2023 8:19 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Fantastic coin and history, Numismatic Student! I can only dream of owning such a beauty.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
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I wondered why it had a silver plug. Makes sense now.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very interesting read, thank you for posting.  Errers and Varietys.
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Very interesting! |
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This is what the coin looks like in hand, took this photo with my iPhone. Stack's photography team is phenomenal and highly skilled, so the auction photos depict the coin accurately, as opposed to the TruView which washes the surfaces away with unrealistic lighting conditions. This coin, although bright and unnatural in appearance, has a clear central plug that is the center of attraction. Neat piece.   Suffering from bust half fever. Want to learn how to attribute early half dollars by die variety? Click Here: http://goccf.com/t/434955Shoot me a PM if you are looking to sell bust halves. |
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This is what the coin looks like in hand Beautiful coin - congrats if you are the buyer, seller, or auction house for that matter. I'll just lie back and start dreaming again. |
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Super coin indeed. Doesn't look unnatural to me.
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This is what the coin looks like in hand, took this photo with my iPhone... Very impressive! |
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