Lot 1337
1800. Bust Dollar. PCGS VF 35. . B-11, BB-191. PCGS graded VF-35. AMERICAI variety. Only 2 graded at PCGS for the variety. Nicely toned specimen. A few light hairlines. AMERICAI variety (one of two AMERICAI varieties, the other, which shares this reverse, is BB-192). After the word AMERICA, an almost vertical line, a stray mark (apparently, not a die crack), perhaps from a punch or from a stray piece of metal during the die making process, appears more or less like an "I" added. There are no serifs to the stray mark, and it takes some imagination to call it an I, but the nomenclature has been with us for a long time, and "AMERICAI" it is. Nowhere else in the silver dollar series has a stray die mark done so much for a coin's reputation 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. Pop 1; 1 finer in 50.
Estimated Value $2,500 - 2,700.
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