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Guess the Grade of this 1799/8 Draped Bust Dollar. #coincollecting #coins #silver
Jan 23, 2023
Today we look at the 1799/8 BB-141 Draped Bust dollar. This coin was graded NGC AU58+, which means that it is practically uncirculated. Charles Morgan talks about mintage, variety diagnostics, and more! Please like and subscribe to CoinWeek to see more videos like this when they are posted.
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foreign
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week editor Charles Morgan and today I'd
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like to share with you a really cool
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coin
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this is a 1799 over 8 trait bus dollar
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which is a BB 141 in the bower sport car
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catalog the eight is clearly visible
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under the final nine of the date this is
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one of the three 1799 over 8 over date
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types the other ones are slightly more
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scarce than this one but this one's
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immediately identifiable when you look
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at the reverse I'll tell you a little
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bit more about that later
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but first let's talk about 1799 in the
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dollar coin the mint reported a total
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manage of 423 515 dollar coins struck in
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1799.
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some numismatists including Q David
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Bowers believe that about 10 of those if
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not a little more may have been struck
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using 1798 dated dies
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I said earlier that this coin had a very
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interesting reverse well turning to that
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reverse you can see the very large
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clouds of the right and the left and the
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glory they were enlarged in order to
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cover
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dysinkers mistake
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as you see there's tips of two stars
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that are obfuscated by the large clouds
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when you tabulate the number of stars
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that were then punched into the dye
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initially you'll see that the
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configuration was a nonsensical seven at
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the top six in the middle and two at the
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bottom with one on each side of the
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eagle as was customary
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that totals 15 Stars which was not the
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incentive the designer and so once he
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realized this mistake you decide to
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cover it up instead of Starting Over by
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enlarging the clouds on the left and the
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right
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this is a popular red book variety and
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in this grade this is a pop one coin
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au58 plus there are plenty of mint State
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examples available 17.99 and 17.99 over
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eight dollars
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by our estimation there's going to be at
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least at least 100 probably still
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survive at the two Grading Services some
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crossover in their census report is
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likely
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at the au58 plus level this is a fairly
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expensive coin interestingly this is the
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only over date US coin struck in the
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18th century which in my opinion adds to
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its appeal
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approximately 50 coins have been graded
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finer at both Services which means that
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the potential exists for maybe a hundred
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maybe more examples are surviving in
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mint State and maybe it's fewer with
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some crossovers accounting for the
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inflated number either way the coin is
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not rare in mint State although it is
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scarce in an absolute sense
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this a58 plus example would be a great
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bargain coin it's a very attractive
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example with good color and good
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surfaces and this would be a little bit
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cheaper than it would cost to get maybe
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a mediocre example an ms61 or 62. many
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of these coins are struck with Clash
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thighs and I believe you can see the
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Clash marks of the ribbon that is held
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in the Eagle's beak on the reverse near
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the bottom of the bus truncation there's
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also present evidence of die rust at the
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bottom of the reverse
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