1799 $1 MS(PCGS#6878)

Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

4230

Grade

XF45

Price

6,900

Lot Description

This handsome example is generally medium slate gray in appearance, the reverse with enhancing blushes of sandy-russet patina that appear to drift toward the borders. Well struck with uniform Choice EF detail to surfaces that show no significant marks. Bowers-Borckardt 156 is a scarcer, more conditionally challenging die marriage of the 1799 silver dollar, with Q. David Bowers accounting for only 275 to 500 survivors in his 2013 <em>Encyclopedia of United States Silver Dollars: 1794-1804</em>. The author also states, "VF and EF coins are seen with frequency, but higher grades are virtually non-existent." As a PQ example at the assigned grade level, this CAC- and CMQ-approved offering represents the finest realistically obtainable for the die pairing as far as most collectors are concerned. BB Die State II.