Lot 2869
1798 Draped Bust Dollar. Large eagle, close date. . BB-123, B-25. PCGS graded VF-30 CAC Verified. Old green holder. Point 9. BB-123 is the aptly named "Blundered Stars Reverse" with blundered star placement, some stars overlap the clouds. "Perhaps, the engraver had too much rum (or "ayle," per National Archives records) while cutting this die!" suggests Bowers tongue-in-cheek in his major encyclopedia on the bust dollar series. "Two uppermost stars in center partly in clouds. Cloud 4 has two rays of a star superimposed on it at lower left; clouds 5 and 6, which overlap, are with the top ray of a star touching cloud 5, the ray to the left of it barely touching the cloud, and the ray to the right slightly overlapping cloud 6. A star touches point of upper part of eagle's beak; star ray points to right side of B in PLURIBUS. Line star pattern. Die crack from stem down to milling. Small die flaws in E of STATES, between E and S, and under S. Die crack from cloud under last S of STATES through top of O and down to base of F." This long-lived reverse die was used to strike 1798 BB-123 (earliest state), BB-124 (intermediate state, now relapped); and 1799 BB-152 (latest state) (PCGS # 6873) .
Estimated Value $2,400 - 2,500.
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