Draped Bust Silver Dollar

Lustrous Choice AU 1800 BB-194 Dollar

Popular Dotted Date Variety

1800 Draped Bust Silver Dollar. BB-194, B-14a. Rarity-3. Dotted Date. AU-55 (PCGS).

Bright silvery surfaces exhibit delicate golden-apricot toning here and there around the peripheries. Highly lustrous overall, the design elements are boldly to sharply defined in the absence of all but light wear that does little more than explain the AU-55 rating from PCGS. An attractive and solidly graded Choice About Uncirculated example of this perennially popular variety in the early dollar series. BB Die State III. The obverse die of this variety developed a number of pits in its surface, particularly around the date, that resulted in raised dots on the coins it struck. These lumps give the 1800 BB-194 variety its popular name as the Dotted Date variety. No examples are known without these raised dots at the date. Although the BB-194 is not a major variety in the overall numismatic scheme of things -- it is actually the result of die deterioration and nothing more -- it is listed in the Guide Book, the foremost arbiter of numismatic fashions, and thus demand for it is extraordinary. The coin offered here is within to the top 15 specimens known and would make an impressive addition to an advanced early dollar cabinet.

PCGS# 40078. NGC ID: 24X9.

PCGS Population (BB-194 attribution only): 1; 2 finer (both AU-58).

From our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Phillip Flannagan Collection, November-December 2001, lot 4274; Ira & Larry Goldbergs' sale of the Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection, September 2011, lot 5118.

Estimate: $ 10000