Flowing Hair Silver Dollar

1795 Flowing Hair Dollar, B-7, BB-18, MS65+ Finest With Silver Plug, Second-Finest Overall The Lord St. Oswald Specimen 1795 $1 Flowing Hair, Three Leaves, Silver Plug, B-7, BB-18, R.3, MS65+ PCGS. Oswald coins have earned exalted status in U.S. Numismatics, but only recently is the pedigree understood to. The Flowing Hair dollar was the first dollar coin issued by the United States federal government. The coin was minted in 1794 and 1795; its size and weight were based on the Spanish dollar, which was popular in trade throughout the Americas.

Description

Designed by Robert Scot, the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar is the coin that began the American tradition of silver dollars, even though it was, in concept, based on other large-size silver coins from other world governments. The 1795 Flowing Hair dollar is one of the earliest and scarcest of United States silver coins, and it’s an especially tough piece in top condition. Yet the finest of the rare Two Leaves variety was recently sold at auction for more than a half-million dollars.

With two leaves below each wing.

The first silver dollar issued by the young United States Government. Very rare there were only 1,758 struck at the new federal mint in Philadelphia.

A fine specimen of this coin sold at auction for ten million dollars in 2013 making this the most valuable coin ever sold.
Obverse: – LIBERTY, 1794, Head of Liberty facing right with fifteen starts around representing the fifteen states that had ratified the Constitution.

Flowing Hair Silver Dollar 1794

Reverse: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, eagle with a wreath around. With two leaves below each wing.

Diameter: 38.5 mm

Flowing Hair Dollars For Sale

Silver plated lead-free pewter, with hand-finished patina, made in the USA.
Packaged in a coin collecting flip with the description of coin printed on flip insert.