1795 Draped Bust Dollar

[insight]

Your thoughts are appreciated (the shadow on the obverse is from my camera)

 

[brg5658]

Are you sure it is genuine?

 

I'm not familiar at all with these, but it just looks "funny" to my eye. I hope for your sake it's 100% real, because it seems to be in pretty good condition for its age.

[Mark T]

I am not going to authenticate the coin – I will let someone else do it.

The coin has been harshly cleaned. Details wise it is a VF .

If the coin is genuine it is still worth decent money .

 

[BillJones]

I think that the coin is genuine, but it has been very harshly cleaned. The piece has VF-35 sharpness. it's a shame than an insufficiently_thoughtful_person got their fingers on this piece. No matter how ugly the toning might have been, it was better than this.

 

I don't have an example of the exact variety as this piece (Bust off-center to the left), but here is a genuine 1795 Draped Bust silver dollar.

 

[AnkurJ]

XF details. Cleaned sadly.

 

Edit to add that it looks real to me.

[newprepper]

don't know anything at all about them or how in the world you can look at and determine fake or not, but the eye and mouth do not look the same at all. I guess maybe different sets of dies? one eye looks bigger and kinda like crazyeye from adam sandler movies, the mouth on one looks pursed and on the other almost a smile. JMHO

[L1ncolnF4n]

VF details. It's been treated with chemical baths (cleaned) which have left an unoriginal look to the surfaces. Appears genuine.

[Mark T]

Bill I don’t find your example to be ugly at all, why would you use that example as ugly toning ? My guess is the Bust in question here was caked with black junk and some numb nut thought they could improve the coin. Maybe it looked worse before the clearing !!

[grip]

This should match up.

[BillJones]

Bill I don’t find your example to be ugly at all, why would you use that example as ugly toning ? My guess is the Bust in question here was caked with black junk and some numb nut thought they could improve the coin. Maybe it looked worse before the clearing !!

 

I don't think I called my coin ugly. It is just not original which seems to mean a lot to some collectors these days. I rather like it especially when I look at the price paid.

[Mark T]

I purchased the attached Bust dollar a few years ago at the ANA Boston show.

I was able to view the coin in hand before I made my bid. It was not CAC certified when I purchased it. This is the look I love - its original and looks fantastic in hand.

[coinman1794]

This piece would have registered a VF35-XF40 grade had it not been harshly cleaned/polished. It appears to be authentic, unless it’s a sophisticated Chinese fake.

[Walkerfan]

VF 35 polished and hairlined.

[dejacku-migration]

God paste it really is different, I like it!

 

 

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[coinstuff-migration]

this is a nice old american coin . i love it