1795 $1 Flowing Hair, BB-21 MS(PCGS#39986)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

2101

Grade

VF25

Prix

12 000

Description du lot

Handsome and fully original mid grade quality for this popular type variety in the early dollar series. Warm medium gray patina throughout, we also note blushes of russet and steel-blue at the borders, as well as playful undertones of lilac-blue and pinkish-apricot. A few well scattered marks are generally consistent with the grade, although accuracy compels us to mention a shallow obverse dig close in to the bottom of Liberty's jawline. The in hand appearance is quite smooth, nonetheless, and especially for the assigned grade, and with overall bold definition and faint remnants of mint luster, one would be hard pressed to find a more visually appealing Flowing Hair dollar at the lower reaches of VF.<p>The second of only two dates in the Flowing Hair silver dollar series, 1795 is the preferred type candidate for the design given the rarity of the 1794 in all grades. Bowers-Borckardt 21 is the second most available die marriage of the issue after BB-27, and examples are particularly popular for type purposes. A readily attributable die, the obverse of BB-21 exhibits more or less bold remnants of a 1 underdigit beneath the primary digit 7 in the date. This die was also used to strike examples of the BB-22 and BB-23 varieties.