Got my 1795 FH Dollar back from PCGS - would like your thoughts
PutTogether
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I haven’t posted here in FOREVER, and have largely been absent for coins for the last few years. (Small kids). I used to love this forum in the early 2000s, and learned a ton here, so seemed the natural place to share. Did a submission to PCGS recently, and this is how it came back.
1795 FH Dollar B5 3 Leaves.
God I wish I could photograph a coin like they do.
Have been looking for a half dollar to go with it for quite some time, but everyone I see is just too “white” and scrubby looking.
Anyway, give me any input you’ve got, and thanks for the look. Cheers.
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Nice looking FH, but is that some kind of graffiti above Miss Liberty’s bust on the obverse? Possibly someone’s initials with exclamation marks. And a rather noticeable scratch near the date. Here’s a similar FH I own for comparison.
Thats one beautiful dollar. Extremely devoid of scuffs and scratches.
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Very nice old coin.
Sweet! Great circ cam look!
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Lovely coin!
Nice dollar, I like 👍
That's a wonderful looking coin and I would be happy to own it.
Nice original coin 👍🏻
Well graded, for the date it's really clean, as is, I'd be happy to own it!
Gorgeous!
Looks like a 30 or 35.... if they didn't genie it for some issue not visible in the TV's.
Beautiful coin. Congrats
Very nice!
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Holy Cow that is nice!
The overall level of surface preservation and skin is amazing. The marks on Ms. Liberty's portrait are trivial and the scratch from her neck to the date is ancient and blends in with the coin incredibly well. This is a seriously nice looking coin.
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Looks veryyy nice! Purely guessing, but my gut instinct (not very experinced) is VG10-12/VF15, maybe 20, but the scratch could knock it down. Could be the weak strike of the era which makes it higher. Saw some others saying 30 etc
I really like the look of this one
Great coin and thanks for posting, @PutTogether. Here is a three leaf FH VF20 on DLRC for comparison purposes:
Tim
beautiful example
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Very easy on the eyes 👀. Definitely a nice subdued color.
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I really like the look of this one> @pointfivezero said:
What an excellent comparison , yours is 10x better, ie no comparison.
Lovely example @PutTogether
Welcome back too!
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Welcome back, you have returned with a bang! What a great looking FH dollar.
Thanks everyone. To first comment, no, I do not think this is graffiti. The story of how I got the coin is a pretty interesting one, I’ll tell the short version here.
My grandfather was helping his father in law move some furniture sometime in I BELIEVE the mid/late sixties. (He remembers that my mom was little). They drug a dresser out to a truck and heard a “ping” sound. This dollar fell off the back. It had been taped in a little envelope or something behind it - no one had any idea how long.
Grandpa kept it, and when I got interested in coins in the 80s, he said I could have it one day. He’d sometimes take me to the bank to look at it in the safe deposit box.
A few years after he died, my grandma gave it to me when coming to visit her great grandkids for Christmas.
I can sort of account for it for last 60ish years - where it was before that, no idea.
Only other thing I know for sure is that it is REALLY hard to find nice gray legitimate early dollars (or halves, or coins at all really).
Glad you guys like it. It’s been “mine” for 6 or 7 years, and I’m trying to think of interesting ways to build a set around it.
Wow… a cool & meaningful story of discovery to go with a lovely-looking dollar. They make a great combination — Thanks for sharing.
beautiful example and great story. thx for sharing.
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In my eyes...perfect!!
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