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1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar NGC VF25

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:1,250.00 USD Estimated At:2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD
1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar NGC VF25
Overton-102. Very pleasing light to medium "old silver" color, with smooth surface, pleasing quality. During the spring and summer 1795, half-dollar coinage, which had commenced the year before, continued from 1795-dated dies [299,680 pieces], from 19 obverse and 22 or 23 reverse dies, the first reverse left over from 1794. Several slightly differing head- and eagle-device punches were used during the year since the dies were individually prepared; the final ones attributed to John Smith Gardner, briefly Assistant Engraver, creator of the famous and rare Small Heads. (#6052)