Lot 3206
1799 Draped Bust Dollar. Normal date. PCGS graded MS-63. This coin is from the famous Alfred Ostheimer collection and before that was held in the Baldenhofer collection. Gorgeous mint luster and fully struck by the dies. The fields and devices show very few signs of handling, and this is a coin any true collector would be proud to own. On the reverse, there are some central adjustment marks present in the star field above the eagle, his body, down into the shield below. The obverse has some curious lines on Liberty, these are die lines and not adjustment marks as noted in the 1975 Superior sale description. A later die state, with the die crack up through the first 9, through Liberty into the field and just touching her chin to the tenth star inner point. On the reverse, there are cracks at the top of MERICA and the dies show light clashing. PCGS has graded only 6 coins of this date as such, with just 10 graded higher, giving the collector some idea of how rare even this "common" date is in mint state grades. Identifiable by a tiny scratch between the second and third stars on the obverse, another from the upper top back ribbon up into the field below the seventh star, and another tiny scratch on the inside of the tenth star inner two points down to the point of the eleventh star. A foremost opportunity for the specialist to put away a particularly high grade and famous coin.
Estimated Value $25,000 - 35,000.
Ex: Baldenhofer collection to Alfred Ostheimer, Edwards H. Metcalf, Superior Stamp & Coin August 1975 ANA sale, lot 930.
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