I’ll never forget Laura’s initial comment on this coin
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Amazing coin. Don’t get to see many that look like that while I’m swimming in the kiddie pool. Thanks for posting
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Stunning!
What an anomaly
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
It does look like a friggen medal !
If that baby hasn’t been in the PCGS yearly calendar already then she needs to be
BEAUTIFUL coin............glad to she resides in good hands.
It has an amazing strike for the type. Fabulous coin!
very nice!
That's what I was going to say
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The strike is so strong and it is devoid of adjustment marks; it almost looks like a special strike. Any ideas why PCGS didn't give it a specimen designation?
Amazing !
A beautiful coin in remarkable condition. Obviously well cared for through 224 years. Cheers, RickO
Your set is coming along with an amazing combination of speed and top top quality.
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Hm. Yes. I would add that to my box of 20.
Medal works as I'm hungry and this looks nothing like an Egg McMuffin.
She'd say. "Opportunity knocks loud."
I say it’s fricken beautiful
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
This particular coin was for this set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/alltimeset/87430
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Love it!
I figured you'd end up with this coin at some point, I remember you bringing it up when the Pogue sales were first announced.
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That is one of the most beautiful and striking coins I’ve ever seen. Congratulations on an awesome PU!
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Incredible 👌🏻
Bruce, Your set is unbelievable. What an incredible eye you have for rare beauty.
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
that's awesome looking. I wish I had that in my collection
This shows that perfection can be improved.
Bruce I am trying to remember the 1795 being replaced. If I recall correctly, it was one of your favorite coins. Is that right? Are you keeping it too?
This is what I remember reading...
Bruce Morelan, in an interview with PCGS in 2016, spoke about this example: “I saw this coin at one of the ANA shows in the mid-2000s. Chris Napolitano showed it to Laura [Sperber] and I in a higher graded holder at the time. It just displayed such beautiful luster, full cartwheel, original golden toning. Everything about the coin I absolutely loved. And once I started building this set, it was the coin that kept popping into my mind as the representative that I wanted of this date, in my set. And I was looking for it, trying to find it, for sale in its previous holder, and eventually it walked up to Legend's table in the new holder, the 64+ holder, and I couldn't buy it fast enough.”
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MS64+ (Ex ngc 65). It will be for sale shortly
He doesn’t step up for the early stuff
Thanks for the link, Bruce. I always enjoy visiting your sets. But after looking at your set one more time, this is the MOST spectacular coin in your set, even surpassing your 1794 with it's perfect strike and amazing toning. This coin makes all of the other coins in the set look quite average........which they certainly are not.
Would love to know the provenance of this GEM. Where has it been hiding all these years?
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This was Ms Bullowa’s private coin for 4 decades. Somewhere there’s the story - I’ll look it up and get back to you with it
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_This is perhaps the most legendary and most discussed 1795 Flowing Hair dollar extant, a coin that received celebratory commentary from numismatic insiders and realized a million-dollar price at a small Philadelphia auction. Considered a special or specimen strike by many cognoscenti, this dollar has been considered something of a companion coin to the Garrett-Pogue 1795 Draped Bust dollar, graded Specimen-66 by PCGS, the only 1795 dollar of any type to be certified as a Specimen by PCGS. This coin displays fully detailed devices standing out from reflective surfaces in bold contrast, fields spectacularly bathed in violaceous and chalybeous toning, framed with pale champagne gold around peripheral elements. From boldly delineated denticles to bold central devices, all major details stand out in relief, including each individual star center. On the reverse, the eagle's feathers are crisp, showing each shaft and curve, and his head likewise shows details of the eye and beak that are rarely found so well struck. His breast is a bit soft, showing traces of light adjustment marks in the region. Light vestiges of adjustment marks are seen above much of the reverse legend, affecting neither lettering nor denticles in a measurable way, yielding to very square and firmly struck rims. No significant adjustment marks are seen on the obverse. Both sides are free from major contact marks, with just a couple of minor contact points in the central right obverse field and lower left obverse field, and only trivial hairlines under well-lit magnified scrutiny. With its deep, rich toning, subtly blended from rim to centers, this dollar presents exquisite visual appeal along with unparalleled technical excellence. The die state is typical, before lapping removed a tiny extraneous piece from right of the left ribbon end on the reverse.
Coins like this, clearly struck so carefully, upon planchets whose reflectivity suggests special pre-striking preparation, have long been accorded particular respect and premium values. Aside from being the finest known 1795 Flowing Hair dollar, many connoisseurs consider this a specimen strike, a "master coin" produced with much the same intent and preparation as Proof coins of a later era. There is no set of standards for such determinations, nor is there a single arbiter, but when this specimen was sold in 2005, most experienced numismatists left lot viewing astonished and in near-uniform agreement that this coin was something truly special.
It was sold in a little publicized sale held in Center City Philadelphia in 2005 by the estimable Catherine Bullowa, then 85 years old and in her 52nd year in the coin business. The last 56 lots were headlined "these are some of my favorite things," described as "the ones that spoke to me, and in some cases, sang to me." Mrs. Bullowa had "been the loving keeper of these pieces for some 50 to 60 years," she recalled in a 2013 interview, adding that this dollar had been acquired from a collector in 1965 as part of a larger cabinet. Selling the remainder of the collection over time, she never parted with this dollar until the now-legendary 2005 auction. Recalling the moment it sold for a seven-figure sum, Mrs. Bullowa said "I was ready to faint. I didn’t even know how to write a million! But Ron Guth was the auctioneer and he helped me." The catalog was written by her friend Anthony Terranova, a renowned New York City dealer, who described this coin's "prooflike surfaces with deep mirror effect" and called it "very similar to Amon Carter’s 1794 dollar," the Specimen-66 (PCGS) Cardinal Collection example that holds the record for most valuable coin ever sold.
This coin was the highlight of an auction that recalled the Philadelphia auctions of a century ago, an event that is still talked about by the numismatists who were present. Since that time, no 1795 dollar has ever been graded higher than MS-65+, leaving this, alone, atop the PCGS Population Report. David Hall has singled it out on the PCGS CoinFacts site as “the finest known example,” an opinion that will provoke no disagreement from those who have had the opportunity to hold it in-hand_
Hmmm... 1795 $1 in 64+ or a 38-S Mercury dime? Decisions, decisions.
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But - isn't it a different die pair?
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Quite the informative and somewhat exiting story (numismaticaly speaking).
Edit:
The denticles, stars, hair, feathers, leafs, centered strike...this coin has it all!
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Numismatics at it's finest.
Truly breath taking!
Whoever wrote this description must be very, very handsome.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
Interesting word, "cognoscenti".
It stirs up in one's mind multiple images of persons who would likely be shown in a picture in a dictionary next to the word itself.
I keep looking at the photo of TDN's new acquisition and day dream about being able to view this coin up close, under optimal lighting, without any distractions. What a treat that would be.
The new one is spectacular, but I remember the old one in hand and it was pretty amazing too. I'd be tempted to keep them both . . .
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Knew it was Pistareen poetry when I read “violaceous and chalybeous toning”.
Someday I would like my coins described like that.
You writing about it now, it looks like a 1.5 Million USD coin!
Mr. Hansen should have bough the 66 in the first place.
I went to get it out of the safe deposit box in Spokane and yup - back it went
That is one sexy gal...
I know you're not big on varieties, but it still sort of makes sense to have both the 2 Leaf and 3 Leaf varieties.
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The differences are more pronounced than I expected- it’s not just the number of leaves
Just ran across this thread again and was enjoying the wonderful coins when I decided to look up where this ended up.
Turns out this is now owned by none other than @DLHansen! How times change and how great to keep it in the forum family!
This was also owned by Jack Lee so it can be known as the Lee-Morelan-Hansen coin.
Jack Lee had some monsters.