Lot 1097
1800 Draped Bust $1 B-19, BB-192 "AMERICAI". Rarity 2. PCGS graded VF-35. A fittingly choice example for the grade, of the optimum quality in terms of color and absence of nicks and scuffs for this widely popular and collected silver dollar design.
After the word AMERICA, an almost vertical line or stray mark (apparently, not a die crack), perhaps from a punch or from a stray piece of metal during the die making process, appears to form an added "I". Nowhere else in the silver dollar series has a stray die mark done so much for a coin's fame in the eyes of collectors.
Other characteristics: Star enters eagle's mouth; point of lower part of beak touches star lightly below point. Upper part of beak does not quite touch. Point of leaf slightly right of being under left upright of I in AMERICA. Middle berry is small and joined to a leaf point by what seems to be a die scratch. A touches 3rd feather only, and ME almost join at bottom. Center of A over cloud 3. Only 10 examples graded for the variety at PCGS. (PCGS # 40082) .
Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,000.
Ex; Hesselgesser Collection.
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