Current Population: MS65: 1 PCGS & 1 NGC with NONE graded higher.

• February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• March 16 - Freedom’s Journal, the first African- American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm. May 21 - The Maryland Democratic Party is founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in Baltimore and hosts its first meeting at the Baltimore Atheneum.
• July 14 - Kingdom of Hawaii: The Diocese of Honolulu is founded. September 22 - Joseph Smith Jr. obtains the Book of Mormon, for him to translate.
• March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (born 1770) dies

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The early Mint designer, Robert Scot (one t) made his original adaptations of the Great Seal of the United States in 1796 for the Quarter Eagles. It followed that a few years later he would use that basic design to improve and “professionalize” the large coinage of the Country, in this case the Bust Dollars. This brought us to the Heraldic Eagle design that has been castigated as “Tasteless Military Brag” or as a “Heroic” design depending on your taste.

In any case this basic reverse was used on Eagles, Half Eagles, dismes, half dismes, Dollars and Halves, basically the whole gamut of coins produced by our mint.

The processes of the Mint in the early days were quite primitive and the dies did not last long. What that has given us is a huge number of nearly unique variations on a general theme.

If you study the Bolender Book (a dense tome to be sure) you will come away with a blizzard of differing types of varieties for each year that these coins were minted (1798 to 1804, yes I know no regular ones were dated in 1804 but they were produced that year anyway, just dated 1803).

In 1799 alone, some 11 different Obverse dies and 17 different Reverse dies were combined to produce 23 varieties. This is a numismatists dream, variation upon variation. For the less collector minded of us, the major varieties of each date will suffice and give great enjoyment.

The collection and investment in the Early Dollar Varieties is quite a rewarding venture and to own a piece of the earliest history of the United States as represented in our coinage is a great pleasure.

This unparalleled specimen is one of the finest Bust Dollar by grade for the date (with the exception noted above) but the real story here is that it is one of the finest for the entire type.

Major Auctions come and go (like buses nowadays) and have realized sales into the high multi-millions without a coin near this fine presented to the buyers. There are less than a half a dozen coins of any date in the Heraldic Eagle design in grades finer than this and less than two dozen to match it.

This specimen has a lovely; natural deep golden toning and is the 13 Arrows 7 / 6 stars regular date variety.
A spectacular coin.

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Early Mint State Gold has proven to be a stable and sought after investment

The Philadelphia Mint made 119,248 eagles of this design between 1799 and 1804, but many were destroyed in the huge melts that took place throughout the early part of the 19th-century. As the world price of gold rose in response to France’s “Reign of Terror” and the Napoleonic Wars, large quantities of U.S. gold coins disappeared across the Atlantic as just so much bullion.

Some thirty-seven thousand specimens were issued the year of George Washington’s death and were, at the time, the largest denomination issued by the United States. (Few realize that no government-backed currency was issued until the middle of the Civil War in 1863).

The finest-known of this date is a single MS66 specimen, however it is the “large stars” variety with only a scant few known in gem MS65.

This is one the 8 “Small Stars” varieties listed by John Dannreuther in “Early U.S. Gold Varieties” (BD-7) and is the highest available grade for the variety with 7 graded by PCGS and only 4 by NGC!

This near-gem MS64 example represents superb value at today’s levels and will surely find it’s way into a world-class collection of American gold coins. It is a classic piece of Americana and a true piece of history to hold in your hand and will reward its new owner for generations to come!

• March 1 - Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
• March 7 - Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
• March 29 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state. Notable deaths in the last year of the 18th Century include June 6 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician (b. 1736) and December 14 - George Washington, first President of the United States, who missed seeing the 1800 new year by barely more than two weeks (b. 1732)

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