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Lot 0001 1795 Bust $1 PCGS VF35

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:2,000.00 USD Estimated At:4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD
Lot 0001 1795 Bust $1 PCGS VF35
Attractive medium gray color with choice surfaces and, a desirable feature for collectors, choice rims without the usual nicks or impairment. A handsomely made and preserved example of this scarcer small eagle Type. Upon his attainment to the title of Mint Director, Henry William DeSaussure vowed to place gold coins into circulation and to improve the designs of the silver coins. For the dollar, this meant that Robert Scot's flowing hair design had to go in favor of the draped bust motif in 1795. Originally from a drawing by noted portraitist Gilbert Stuart, the draped bust dollar in its final shape also bears the marks of John Eckstein (who created models from Stuart's drawings) and Engraver Robert Scot.

Two pairs of dies were made for the production of 1795 draped bust dollars. BB-51 was probably employed first, since the Mint corrected the off-centering of Liberty's bust that characterizes this variety on the centered-bust BB-52 obverse.