Lot 1334
1799 Draped Bust Dollar. Irregular date, 13 stars on reverse. EF-45 BB-160. A well struck example with excellent surfaces that exhibit light golden toning. This obverse closely resembles both BB-165 and BB-166, but the first star of BB-160 is much farther from curl, slightly over 2.5 mm. Versus only about 2 mm. in BB-166. On the right, stars 11-12-13 are closer together than are the others. Obverse die used to strike 1799 BB-160 only. On the reverse, there are no berries. U in UNITED defective at upper left part, which is cut off due to defective punch. Point of star touches point of lower part of eagle's beak; ray points to left serif at left side of U in PLURIBUS. Star under cloud 1 is noticeably smaller than any other. Far right edge of A is over junction of clouds 3 and 4. A in AMERICA rests on 4th feather (PCGS # 6880) .
Estimated Value $3,400 - 3,600.
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