1791 1C Washington, Large Eagle, BN MS(PCGS#702)

Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

1275

Grade

MS64BN

Prix

2 880

Description du lot

29.5 mm. 191.5 grains. Attractive rose, blue, gold and green iridescence over most of the prooflike surface, while outlines of rich lingering mint red remain in the most protected recesses. A few faint hairlines and a tiny inconsequential scratch off the eagle's beak are noted for accuracy, but these have little impact on the attractive aesthetic. An early coinage proposal that is popular today, but very much "got it wrong" in 1791, when its makers made the assumption that Washington would follow the European model of governance, desire his face on coinage, and stay in office until his own end.