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1798 Bust $1. Heraldic Eagle, Close Date PCGS VF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:1,200.00 USD Estimated At:2,400.00 - 2,500.00 USD
1798 Bust $1. Heraldic Eagle, Close Date PCGS VF
<Our item number 128568><B>1798 Draped Bust Dollar. Large eagle, close date. BB-123, B-25. PCGS graded VF-30.</B> Old green holder. Point 9. BB-123 is the aptly named &#34;Blundered Stars Reverse&#34; with blundered star placement, some stars overlap the clouds. &#34;Perhaps, the engraver had too much rum &#40;or &#34;ayle,&#34; per National Archives records&#41; while cutting this die!&#34; suggests Bowers tongue-in-cheek in his major encyclopedia on the bust dollar series. &#34;Two uppermost stars in center partly in clouds. Cloud 4 has two rays of a star superimposed on it at lower left; clouds 5 and 6, which overlap, are with the top ray of a star touching cloud 5, the ray to the left of it barely touching the cloud, and the ray to the right slightly overlapping cloud 6. A star touches point of upper part of eagle&#39;s beak; star ray points to right side of B in PLURIBUS. Line star pattern. Die crack from stem down to milling. Small die flaws in E of STATES, between E and S, and under S. Die crack from c loud under last S of STATES through top of O and down to base of F.&#34; This long-lived reverse die was used to strike 1798 BB-123 &#40;earliest state&#41;, BB-124 &#40;intermediate state, now relapped&#41;; and 1799 BB-152 &#40;latest state&#41; <B>&#40;PCGS # 6873&#41;</B>. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;2,400 - 2,500. <BR><BR>Our item number 128568<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/44jpegs/128568.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/44jpegs/128568N2.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/44jpegs/128568N3.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/44jpegs/128568N4.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>