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1798 Draped Bust Dollar. Large eagle, close date

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:3,250.00 USD Estimated At:6,500.00 - 7,500.00 USD
1798 Draped Bust Dollar. Large eagle, close date
<Our item number 108145><B>1798 Draped Bust Dollar. Large eagle, close date. BB-123, B-25. NGC graded AU-55.</B> Light grey toning. Soft strike near the reverse stars as usual. Extensive die breaks on the obverse, as pictured. Pop 1; finest graded for the variety. This is from the so-called &#34;Blundered Stars Reverse&#34; with blundered star placement; some stars overlap the clouds. Perhaps, the engraver was inattentative when cutting this die. 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 cloud under last S of STATES throug h top of O and down to base of F.<BR><BR>&#34;I believe that 300 to 500 examples are known of 1798 BB-123,&#34; explains the Bowers encyclopedia, &#34;making it in the middle range of availability. Nearly all are in lower grades through EF. AU coins are very rare.&#34; <BR>Estimated Value &#36;6,500-7,500. <I><BR>Ex Dr. Hesselgesser.</I> <BR><BR>Our item number 108145<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/39jpegs/108145.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/39jpegs/108145N2.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>