Watch List notes:

1799 Draped Bust Dollar. BB-168, B-22. Rarity 5. PCGS VF 25. 21497838. Bowers Die State III. A horizontal die crack bisects the reverse, from the right side of the E to the left side of the M. Characteristic of this later die state is the blob at the crack as it touches the upper right of the E of UNITED and a wide crack as it touches the left serif of the M in AMERICA. The obverse die exhibits a crack from the rim upward between the 1 and 7 of the date. There is a raised die lump in the field to the right of Liberty's eye, another to the right of star ten near the denticles. BB-168 is among the scarcer die marriages for this 1799 issue. Its illusiveness can be attributed to the heavy bisecting die crack on the reverse which would have caused an early withdrawal of that die from production.

From the Richard Basler Collection.



PCGS Coinfacts and NGC Coin Explorer.