Superior Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

In 1794, the mint did not have a coining press powerful enough to strike Dollar-size coins, the largest being used for Large Cents and Half Dollars. T

BB-21, the blundered date variety. A lovely medium gray specimen with glossy smooth surfaces on each side, choice rims, and absolutely gorgeous appear

A spectacular toned About Uncirculated that has smooth luster and beautiful medium gray patina. With three leaves under each wing, and the only 14-ber

Well struck and attractive, with lighter high points creating contrast for the natural gray of the fields. BB-18, which is one of the more available v

Dipped and allowed to retone, now muddy gray to milky pearl color with some deeper shades of old-silver around the stars. The popular Bolender-5 varie

Beautiful medium gray surfaces with a small mark in the eagle's legs but choice rims and splendid eye-appeal. BB-21, the blundered date variety ...

BB-51, draped bust with uneven centering of Liberty. The highest wave of the hair is under the B of LIBERTY. Medium gray toning with deeper gray withi

BB-52. Draped Bust similar to BB-51, the only other 1795 draped bust variety, but the bust is well-centered in the die. The highest wave of the hair i

Light silvery gray with deeper shades of toning around stars and letters. An estimated 175 to 300 specimens exist of this commoner 1796 BB-63 small da

The 1796 BB-61 dollar with small date and large letters is the most plentiful variety of the year, although any 1796 is still scarce. An estimated 1,2

Rim problems and surface marks. Medium dullish gray patina with deeper shades on the high points. BB-61, no leaves touch UNITED. (#6860)

1796 BB-65 large date, small letters variety is the second most available (after BB-61) of the die varieties of the 1796 date. Bowers places an estima

Of all 1797 varieties, the BB-72 is at once the rarest, best known, and most sought after. This issue occupies its own niche in numismatic literature,

Attractive deep gray patina on both sides; well struck for this often problem-plagued year. Scarce in high grade like VF. (#6866)

Choice with plenty of mint frost left around the main devices. Silvery bright (dipped) but without the usual small problems that plague this very diff

Lustrous and lightly toned (though is was dipped recently, the dipping did no damage whatsoever to the delicate luster). An appealing specimen of this

One of the more confusing issues in the bust dollar series, immediately after 1797 BB-73 Die State IV was coined, the reverse die was mated with a 179

BB-71 has 16 stars, only six at right facing bust. A die dot close to the bottom right of the second digit makes the date read 17.97 (some imagination

BB-71. The popular yet elusive Small Eagle, draped bust Type issued between 1795 and 1798. Dollars of this date are a study in contrast. Rather than

Smooth, even-gray finish with a couple of old marks on the neck near the lovelock curl. The only 1798 dollar with 15 stars. Undoubtedly, this die was