1799 $1 BB-163 MS(PCGS#40054)

May 2006 Pre-Long Beach Auction #36

Commissaire-priseur

Goldberg Auctioneers

Numéro du lot

3052

Grade

VF-25

Prix

1 783

Description du lot

Light even grey toning on both sides. An appealing specimen of this year (PCGS # 6878) </B>. <BR><BR>In 1799, Congress suspended all trade with France and her colonies. During the warlike tensions that ensued, the frigate Constellation captured the French sailing ship <I>Insurgente.</I> In March of that year, President John Adams appointed William Varns Murray to be the new Minister to France. Murray headed a peace commission which ended hostilities with France. Also this year, on December 14, George Washington died of a severe throat infection, following a cold caught while riding around his farm in the rain and snow. (An Alexandria, Virginia newspaper published in its entirety the report submitted by the attending physicians.). <BR>Estimated Value $1,700 - 1,900.